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Empty pledges won’t solve the knife crime epidemic

18 January 2025

2:23 AM

18 January 2025

2:23 AM

On 23 September last year at 6.30 p.m. in the evening in a street in Woolwich, London, Daejaun Campbell cried out, ‘I’m 15, don’t let me die’ as he bled out on a pavement after being stabbed. You probably won’t remember Deajaun but he was a one of nine children murdered by knives in London last year.

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