Sir Keir Starmer has promised action to tackle the sale of knives online, which he says are too easily available.
At his first annual knife crime summit, attended by the actor Idris Elba and other campaigners, the Prime Minister also said they need to reach young people whose lives may be going off track, to bring them back.
Also taking part in the summit was Faron Paul, a knife crime victim turned campaigner. He was stabbed 18 times in two attacks but now runs FazAmnesty, a charity that takes unwanted weapons off young people. We spoke to him and began by asking what is driving young people to put themselves at risk and hurt others.There’s a thing called – what I see as – children, and I believe any child in any environment are going to come with a thing called naivety – impulsive. You know, being a child, being naive and being young is something you’re allowed to do.
They haven’t got a chance in growing up, like being a normal child, to be naive because the things that they’re going to get involved with – the influences, the peer pressures, they can’t go back from that. They can’t go back from being stabbed. They can’t go back from being hurt. They can’t go back from having a criminal record for getting caught.On a personal note, you must have been involved with children and young people and something terrible has happened to them.
After that initial interaction with the police and it all goes away, these people are still left with the injuries. They’re still left with their fear. The same people that hurt them still know where they go to school or where they live. So it then forces another young person that’s been in that situation to either suffer emotional post-traumatic stress or go and pick up a knife in the sense of revenge or defending themself.
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