Idris Elba calls for kitchen knifes to have their ends rounded off to help prevent knife crime. Speaking on BBC Radio 4 Today's programme, Elba said: 'Not all kitchen knives need to have a point on them, that sounds like a crazy thing to say'.
LISTEN: Yvette Cooper has revealed she is considering Idris Elba 's call to ban kitchen knives with pointed ends in an attempt to prevent deadly stabbings.
Rudakubana was sentenced to 52 years in prison last month for the murder of three girls when he attacked a Taylor Swift themed dance class using a kitchen knife he bought on Amazon. 'This is an issue that Idris has raised. It's also an issue surgeons who have dealt with knife crime. Victims have also raised this as well in the past. So that's why we are looking at it.'
The proposal may prove controversial among chefs, who use the pointed ends of kitchen knives for a variety of purposes, including filleting fish and making precise cuts. In September, a ban on zombie knives and machetes came into place in England and Wales, making it an imprisonable offence to possess, sell, manufacture or transport them
Mr Elba said: 'We are still in crisis. Numbers fluctuate and the types of crime vary. But I still think this country is in a crisis point. We need to intervene or it's going to get worst. Mr Elba spoke about 'someone very close to me' who had gone into a gang at the same time that he went into acting, and said he had spoken to him about the documentary.
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