Rejected petition Carrying a knife to be an offence as “intent to murder persons unknown”.

If our society is not to descend into barbarity we must bring a halt to the scourge of knife crime.
Carrying a knife without good reason should be prosecuted as “carrying a weapon with intent to murder persons unknown” and if convicted carry a mandatory prison sentence of ten years.

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Knife crime has risen from 26,000 in 2015 to 40,000 in 2018; an increase of 54%.

Every day we hear of tragic deaths of individuals murdered through knife crime, often over the most trivial of disputes.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/233926

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Date submitted 1 January 2019
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