Thirty teenagers were stabbed to death in London last year. What can be done to save lives in 2022?
Jermaine Cools, 14, pictured here with his mother Lorraine, was the 27th teenager to be stabbed to death in London last year
She explained that when she asked a group of children about to start at secondary school what they were most afraid of, "100% of them, all primary school children, said they were [most] scared of being stabbed". "We try to sugar-coat it but they are already exposed to all this, so we shouldn't sugar-coat it any more."Zaian Aimable-Lina, 15, was killed in Croydon on 30 December - and still was not the last teenage homicide victim of 2021
"I'm looking at it differently now - I'm thinking how can I get the streets and the community into my school?'He said he would stab me in my face'"Knife crime is crazy since the summer," according to Aaron Nzita, 19, who explained how he was mugged at knifepoint in September. "Some kids before didn't want to speak to police at all, but now they're frightened so they want to speak to police.""Most of these kids are not going to stab someone to kill them, they are just trying to protect themselves and make a statement."Wayne Lindsay, who was also at the meeting at the Croydon Voluntary Action base, is the co-founder of P4YE, a group that supports young people and families in south London.
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