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Mary Wakefield

Abandoning stop and search would be abandoning a generation of kids

29 June 2019

9:00 AM

29 June 2019

9:00 AM

It was somehow inevitable that shortly after Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick announced a fall in violent crime, there would be an absolute horror-show of death across the capital. The ‘weekend of bloodshed’ began on Friday 14 June with the murder of 18-year-old Cheyon Evans, knifed by teens in Wandsworth.

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