‘Knife Angel’ sculpture standing 27ft tall and made from 100,000 confiscated and handed-in blades will go on display in Christmas warning against stabbings
- A 27-foot ‘Knife Angel’ made out of more than 100,000 knives will visit Liverpool
- The metal sculpture was made by the British Ironwork Centre two years ago
- It will spend Christmas in Liverpool city centre as as a monument to the devastating impact of knife violence
A sculpture of an angel made out of more than 100,000 handed-in knives will travel to Liverpool.
The sculpture was created two years ago by the British Ironwork Centre in Shropshire to illustrate the impact of knife crime.
An emergency room nurse working in Royal Liverpool Hospital campaigned for the 27ft Knife Angel sculpture to spend Christmas in Liverpool city centre.
A 27 foot sculpture of an angel made out of more than 100,000 handed-in knives will travel to Liverpool. The Knife Angel’s sculptor said he hopes the statue will tour the nation in an attempt to combat knife violence
Nurse Rob Jackson campaigned for the statue to visit the city as a monument to the devastating impact of knife violence.
Mr Jackson tours schools around Merseyside talking to young adults about the impact of knives and his work in the emergency room with victims.
More than 80 of the angel’s knife blade wings are engraved with messages from families affected by knife crime.
The statue will be first seen on the streets of Liverpool, outside its Anglican Cathedral near the city centre. It was installed yesterday afternoon having travelled just under 60 miles from the ironworks
Organisers had to arrange a police escort for the statue to be transported into Liverpool via the Mersey tunnel.
The statue had been made to stand in Trafalgar Square in London. This year, the capital has seen a record number of stabbings, shootings and murders.
But the statue will be first seen on the streets of Liverpool, outside its Anglican Cathedral near the city centre.
It was installed yesterday afternoon having travelled just under 60 miles from the ironwork centre.
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When the statue was first built, the British Ironwork Centre had offered to build 150 knife amnesty banks for police forces for free.
Police forces then donated the weapons from the banks to the centre, who used them to create a monument.
The Knife Angel’s sculptor Alfie Bradley said he hopes the statue will tour the nation in an attempt to combat knife violence.
An emergency room nurse working in Royal Liverpool Hospital campaigned for the 27-foot Knife Angel sculpture to spend Christmas in Liverpool city centre
Dean of Liverpool, Dr Sue Jones, told the Liverpool Echo the city wanted to show ‘solidarity’ with knife crime victims.
She said: ‘As well as standing alongside all those affected by knife crime we want to urge those who carry knives to recognise the pain they cause themselves and others as we work to a day when we truly see peace in our streets.’
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