...the National Cutlery Association...
"Knife crime is at its highest ever recorded level, and murders were also up by nine per cent in England and Wales, with a total of 653 recorded by police across last year."
Killings rose from 109 to 157, but the Met’s stats do include the 14 people killed in the three terror attacks. Even without the terror attack, the rise is 31 per cent, more than three times the national rise over a similar period.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan was quick to jump on the statistics to argue the crime wave was not his responsibility.
