Since Sunday, four stabbings have taken place in London. All of the victims have been identified or described as teenagers.
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Residents in the town of Feltham have reopened a community centre to teach young people about the dangers of knives and getting involved with knife crime.
It comes after two teenagers were stabbed in the town’s park and on its high street in broad daylight earlier this week.
A day after the stabbings, the Chief Superintendent Ade Adelekan, the head of the Metropolitan Police’s Violent Crime Task Force, revealed half the perpetrators of knife crime in London are teenagers or children.
Since Sunday, four stabbings have taken place in London. All of the victims have been identified or described as teenagers.
The project’s head, Garvin Snell, is known for his homemade knife crime video which has had over two million views since being posted on social media. In it, he shows the best defence against someone with a knife is to run away.
Mr Snell told City News that they would use the youth centre to host workshops, games classes and friendship making sessions to “help kids set personal targets they can work towards”.
He said: “It’s a vicious cycle for these kids. Those ones that are 20 they might have started off using knives when they were 14, 15 getting involved in these gangs and now they know what to say, what to do because they’ve had it done to them.
“It’s a vicious cycle, and I see it as my personal goal to break that cycle.”
“The government and Police are not doing enough,” Mr Snell claimed.
“I heard the other day the home secretary announced he’s going to take kids’ Facebook pages away from them when they’re caught with knives. That ain’t really doing nothing, they’re just going to create a new account in seconds”.
8% of those involved with knife crime in the capital are just 10-14 years old. The rest of that half is made up of youths 15-19 years of age.
In a statement, the Home Office said: “As part of the strategy we are providing £17.7m through the Early Intervention Youth Fund to support 29 projects over the next two years to help Police and Crime Commissioners and Community Safety Partnerships to support youth groups and communities to provide early intervention and prevention with children and young people”.
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StandfirstAmid rising levels of youth-related knife crime, the community centre opens a day after two teenage Feltham boys are stabbed.
Residents in the town of Feltham have reopened a community centre to teach young people about the dangers of knives and getting involved with knife crime.
It comes after two teenagers were stabbed in the town’s park and on its high street in broad daylight earlier this week.
A day after the stabbings, the Chief Superintendent Ade Adelekan, the head of the Metropolitan Police’s Violent Crime Task Force, revealed half the perpetrators of knife crime in London are teenagers or children.
Since Sunday, four stabbings have taken place in London. All of the victims have been identified or described as teenagers.
The project’s head, Garvin Snell, is known for his homemade knife crime video which has had over two million views since being posted on social media. In it, he shows the best defence against someone with a knife is to run away.
Mr Snell told City News that they would use the youth centre to host workshops, games classes and friendship making sessions to “help kids set personal targets they can work towards”.
He said: “It’s a vicious cycle for these kids. Those ones that are 20 they might have started off using knives when they were 14, 15 getting involved in these gangs and now they know what to say, what to do because they’ve had it done to them.
“It’s a vicious cycle, and I see it as my personal goal to break that cycle.”
“The government and Police are not doing enough,” Mr Snell claimed.
“I heard the other day the home secretary announced he’s going to take kids’ Facebook pages away from them when they’re caught with knives. That ain’t really doing nothing, they’re just going to create a new account in seconds”.
8% of those involved with knife crime in the capital are just 10-14 years old. The rest of that half is made up of youths 15-19 years of age.
In a statement, the Home Office said: “As part of the strategy we are providing £17.7m through the Early Intervention Youth Fund to support 29 projects over the next two years to help Police and Crime Commissioners and Community Safety Partnerships to support youth groups and communities to provide early intervention and prevention with children and young people”.
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