#knife-crime

#knife-crime

A man with previous convictions for knife crime has been jailed for nine years after he killed a 20-year-old who stole from the defendant's unlocked van in the early hours of the morning.

A man with previous convictions for knife crime, who killed a 20-year-old outside his home after that person stole from the defendant's unlocked van in the early hours of the morning, has been jailed for nine years.

A man was fatally stabbed early Friday in San Francisco's Mission District, the police said. The attack happened around 12:11 a.m. Feb. 6 in the 1900 block of Mission Street, between 15th and 16th streets. The victim was declared dead at a hospital. Shortly afterward, a suspect was arrested: a 47-year-old San Francisco man apprehended near 15th and Mission streets. He was found to be carrying a knife, the police said. The suspect faces charges of murder and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The mother of a 15-year-old boy stabbed to death on a south London street has accused social services of failing to help get her son away from drug dealers who had groomed him. Speaking to BBC Panorama, Daejaun Campbell's mother, Jodian Taylor, says despite her pleas for help, Greenwich Council refused to accept that Daejaun met the threshold for social services help until it was too late, and then failed to provide the support the family needed.

The court has heard a man with a severe mental illness was known to services and assessed by consultant psychiatrists as psychologically stable and safe for the community.

Metropolitan Police A convicted sex offender who was accidentally released from prison has pleaded guilty to burglary and carrying a knife. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, became the centre of a manhunt in November after he was mistakenly set free from HMP Wandsworth while on remand awaiting trial for the offences. On Tuesday, Kaddour-Cherif appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court and admitted breaking into a garage in Walthamstow, east London and stealing bikes in January 2024.

BBC A man has admitted stabbing an 11-year-old girl in a random knife attack in Leicester Square. The Australian child was on holiday with her 34-year-old mother when she was targeted by Ioan Pintaru in London's West End at about 11:30 BST on 12 August last year. Pintaru, who denied attempted murder, allegedly approached the girl as she left the Lego store, placed her in a headlock and stabbed her eight times.