London's Violence Reduction Unit director says hospitals are reporting more forceful knife attacks.
Fatal knife attacks on under 25s are becoming "more frenzied", the London Assembly has heard.
This comes amid a decrease in overall homicides, which fell by 17, from 144 to 127, over the same period.'Broken' mum hopes to raise knife crime awareness "The most compelling reason I've heard is that some of these murders have been more frenzied attacks - that's the intelligence I get from the hospitals - whereas before that might have been an isolated stabbing incident that didn't escalate into a homicide.'Desensitised'She called on the Met Police to stop using images of knives on its social media feeds, because young people were telling her they were influencing them to "tool up".
"I'm really keen to advocate on behalf of young people about the importance of not using knife imagery."
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