Knife crime soars 12 per cent to record levels as Britain's crime epidemic continues

Crime overall was up nine per cent as the country's crime wave showed no signs of slowing down, the latest stats showed.

The number of offences involving a knife or sharp object in the last 12 months rose to 39,332.

Experts took out the figures from Greater Manchester Police because they had under-reported some of the crimes – including them the total is 41,884.

The numbers are at a record level since the data started being collected in 2010.

NHS staff have seen a rise in the number of hospital admissions in the same period too.

Killings were also on the rise – up by 14 per cent in the year to June 2018.

Almost all offences which involved a knife were robberies or violent assaults. A small percentage were rapes and sexual assaults.

A glut of cocaine flooding the country has been partly blamed for the country's violent crime.


The shocking stats also showed:

  • Robberies up 22 per cent
  • Theft up eight per cent
  • Burglaries up two per cent
  • An 18 per cent hike in recorded sexual offences – thought to be due to more people coming forward

But gun crime was down by five per cent, according to the figures.

The ONS said today:  "Over the last year, we have seen rises in some types of theft and in some lower-volume but higher-harm types of violence.

"This is balanced by a fall in the high-volume offence of computer misuse and no change in other high-volume offences such as overall violence, criminal damage and fraud."

Last week it was revealed that ministers are set to beef up knife crime laws – after discovering the current system doesn't protect people in their own home.

Thugs who use an offensive weapon to threaten people on private property are, astonishingly, immune from prosecution.

But the loophole will be closed under new laws going before MPs this week – in another victory for The Sun on Sunday’s Beat the Blades campaign.

Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, said the figures were "truly shocking".

“You can’t keep the public safe on the cheap," she said.

"The Tories are failing in their duty to protect the public and keep our citizens safe.

“These figures are a tragic indictment of this Tory government’s policies. Labour will recruit 10,000 new police officers to address this crisis.”

This month alone has seen two horrific stabbings in the capital.

A mas was stabbed on busy London Overground train travelling to Hackney Central station, and just days later a 25-year-old was found with knife wounds at Tufnell Park.


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