Two schoolboys aged 13 and 14 stabbed in separate attacks as Britain’s knife crime epidemic rages on
A boy, 13, was allegedly stabbed on his lunch break in Glasgow today while a 14-year-old boy was attacked in Preston last night
TWO schoolboys have been stabbed in separate attacks as Britain's knife crime epidemic rages on.
A 13-year-old boy was allegedly knifed on his lunch break in Glasgow today while a boy, 14, was stabbed in Preston last night.
It comes as the UK murder rate soared to its highest for a decade.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested over the alleged stabbing near a school in Glasgow at 1.30am.
Last night a boy, 14, was seriously injured in a knife attack in Preston, Lancs.
Police were called to Samuel Street at around 11pm after the victim was knifed in the arm, hand, leg and ankle.
BOY, 13, 'KNIFED' ON SCHOOL LUNCH BREAK
Cops have arrested three men aged 21, 22 and 24 on suspicion of GBH with intent.
Last weekend Asda pledged to remove all single kitchen knives from all its stores by the end of April amid the soaring violence on UK streets.
The startling statistics released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) exposed the terrifying reality of crime sweeping the UK, with 90 more homicides - which include murder and manslaughter - recorded by the police in the year to September 2018.
Most
It comes after Home Secretary Sajid Javid demanded £300m to tackle knife crime crisis in Britain’s biggest cities.
Meanwhile Scotland Yard chiefs revealed plans to tackle the epidemic by stop-and-searching 1,000 knife suspects every day.
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Graham McNulty said the aim of the operation was "to put as many feet on the streets as possible."
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at [email protected] or call 0207 782 4368 . We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours