Tuesday, March 11, 2008
news you’re unlikely to see on the front page
(from BBC News website)
The number of fatal stabbings in London has dropped by 15%, figures have
shown.
There were 68 knife murders carried out between April 2006 to January
2007, compared with 58 during the same period in 2007/8.
Overall knife crime was down by 15.7% with 10,200 offences recorded in
2006/7 compared with 8,600 the year after, the Metropolitan Police (Met)
data showed.
Last year, 26 teenagers were killed on the streets of London - 17 of
them were stabbed to death.
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