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British police battle against knife crime
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 29 - 05 - 2008


Fourteen-year-old Martin Dinnegan sensed he was in
danger when a group of boys pulled faces at him on a London bus. An
hour later he was dead, stabbed in the back by the same gang that
pursued him after he got off at a bus stop, according to dpa.
Teenagers posturing in front of victims, and being ready for
violent confrontation were now the "scourge of cities and towns," the
prosecutor dealing with Martin's murder said.
"This is such a case, which leads from dirty looks to death in one
hour," he added.
Safety on London's buses has been in the public eye ever since
Anthony Whelan, 28, was stabbed to death on the top deck of a double-
decker in the summer of 2005, trying to shield his girlfriend from
having potato chips thrown at her by a fellow-passenger.
The capital's new mayor, Boris Johnson, has pledged to place
plain-clothes officers on trains and buses, where a ban on
consuming alcohol is to come into force on June 1.
But escalating knife crime, which has claimed the lives of 15
teenagers so far in London this year, is not confined to vandals
rampaging on a driver-only bus, it has also reared its head outside
schools and bars, and even on Oxford Street, the city's main shopping
quarter.
Among the recent victims of the killings, which affect all ethnic
groups, was 18-year-old Robert Knox, a young British actor with a
role in the next Harry Potter movie.
"With every teenage death a little bit of London dies too," said
Kit Malthouse, London's deputy mayor responsible for the fight
against youth crime.
A recent survey showed that more than one in every 10 young people
has been affected by gun and knife crime, and that 36 per cent of
all youths were afraid of being the victims of such crimes.
As metal detector arches mushroom at Underground (Tube) and
railway stations, and police officers with hand-held scanners are
deployed at school gates, London's Metropolitan Police have enlisted
young victims of muggings and knife attacks to help them in the fight
to take the "glamour out of knives."
A new hard-hitting campaign, devised with the help of 18 young
people affected by such crime, show images of horrific real-life
knife wounds suffered by victims.
The real images from a medical photo library, as well as CCTV
footage from a shopping street stabbing will be distributed through
social networking websites and on mobile phones.
One such image, showing a mutilated hand, is accompanied by the
warning that carrying a knife makes the bearer more, and not less,
vulnerable to attack.
"I hope it will make people think twice about using a knife," said
16-year-James Turton, who designed the poster after he became the
victim of a mugging.
The message was aimed at burying the belief that carrying a knife
makes makes you feel safer, a reason given by most young people in
surveys about knife crime, according to police.
"It is of critical importance that young people understand that
carrying a knife is not cool," said London's police chief Ian Blair.
For parents, the time had come to talk to teenage children not
only about "drink, drugs and relationships, but also about knife
crime."
However, with a recent survey showing that two-thirds of 800
youngsters cited drugs, self-protection, image, peer pressure and
revenge as reasons for becoming involved in gun and knife crime, the
police knows it cannot win the battle on its own.


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