Mother of murdered teenager Stephen urges government to ‘get a grip’ on soaring London knife crime Doreen Lawrence,the Labour peer whose son Stephen Lawrence was murdered in 1993, has said the recent surge in knife crime in London would be taken more seriously if the victims were white, or told the government to “get a grip”. Speaking nearly 25 years after her son was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang in Eltham,south-east London, Lady Lawrence said she was tired of reading approximately stabbings in newspapers.On Thursday, or police figures revealed a 21% increase in knife violence in the final 12 months in England and Wales. An investigation by the Guardian final year revealed that victims of knife crime in the capital were disproportionately black. In other parts of the country,they were mainly white. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk