All news on the topic: Knife crime

A rapist who escaped from a prison van has been told he may never be released from prison.

Four men have been charged with murder after a 24-year-old man was found dead in Leicester.

Police have been granted extra stop and search powers following reports of groups of youths armed with machetes, involved in fights and assaults in Liverpool city centre. A Section 60 order came into force at 3pm today (Thursday, July 23) and will remain in place until 3pm on Friday, July 24.

The mum of Henry Nowak’s killer has been jailed for three years after hiding a ceremonial blade used to stab the student to death.

A man put a “wooden stick” in a car outside an address linked to the Ann Widdecombe murder suspect before driving off on the morning she is believed to have been attacked, it has been reported.

A man has been arrested over the murder of a 24-year-old woman in west London, police said.

The 23-year-old is serving a life sentence after he was convicted earlier this year of murdering university student Henry.

A teenager fatally stabbed a 16-year-old boy without saying a word and with "no hesitation", a court has heard.

A second boy has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 17-year-old in south-west London.

Three people, including two boys aged 14 and 16, have been charged after a man died following a stabbing in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Western Europeans believe crime is rising in their country, according to a survey, despite long-term overall crime rates falling across the region since the mid-1990s.

“Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?” a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told the media.

Eleven police officers and a police dog were injured in Southampton when rioters took to the streets in Henry Nowak’s name, days after his killer was convicted of murder.

Tributes have been paid to a singer-songwriter who collaborated with some of the world’s biggest stars and was stabbed to death in the garden of a London property.

This is the shocking moment three teenage knife attackers celebrated after murdering 16-year-old Kayden Moy on Irvine Beach.

Keir Starmer said he was "profoundly humbled" after meeting the family of murdered teenager Henry Nowak in Downing Street - urging politicians not to use the tragedy to stir up division.

Nigel Farage has criticized the police who believed a killer’s "racist attack" lie while his victim bled to death in handcuffs.

As Henry Nowak lay bleeding to death in the middle of a residential street in Southampton, his wrists were chained together by handcuffs.

A man who initiated an unprovoked knife attack on two strangers at a London tube station has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment.

A 15-year-old boy who stabbed a fellow pupil to death during their school lunch break can now be named as he faces a life sentence today.

A BBC investigation has uncovered incidents of very young children bringing knives into primary schools.

The owner of a knife retail store that sold a "fearsome" machete to the Southport killer had previously been warned by police for selling blades.

A bank employee and her brother have both been found guilty of murdering a 21-year-old man in a "frankly brutal" knife attack on a city street.