PUT THE KNIFE AWAY THUGS/5 YEAR TERM PRISON IN UK

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Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
June 1, 2006 Author: By BEN TAYLOR, LUKE SLAKELD and BEN FARMER



Far tougher penalties for thugs caught carrying knives could be rushed through following a wave of stabbings.

Home Secretary John Reid is planning to introduce laws which would mean automatic jail terms - with sentences as long as five years.

Mr Reid wants to add the measures to the Violent Crime Reduction Bill which is going through the House of Lords.

The current maximum sentence for possession of an offensive weapon is two years and there is no minimum term. Some offenders escape with a fine or caution.

The move would represent a big U-turn by the Home Office, which has fiercely resisted a campaign by the relatives of victims to bring the penalty for carrying a knife in line with those for possessing a gun.

Home Office sources said the Violent Crime Reduction Bill could easily be amended to introduce a mandatory sentence for carrying a knife.

Mr Reid said recently: "I'm determined to do everything we can to reduce the devastation of knife crime through tough laws."

Tony Blair added: "We are giving urgent consideration not just to banning a whole series of knives that can be used as offensive weapons, but also making sure that there is some minimum sentence if someone is found without good reason in possession of a knife."

The action follows a growing campaign for a crackdown after a string of knife attacks.

Yesterday the headmaster at the school of stabbed pupil Kiyan Prince delivered an emotional condemnation of the Government's response to knife crime.

Phil Hearne said it was absurd that it could act so decisively in response to the healthier school meals campaign by Jamie Oliver, yet dragged its feet in cracking down on lethal weapons.

Turkey Twizzler

"Which is more dangerous - a Turkey Twizzler or a knife?" asked Mr Hearne, head of the London Academy in Edgware, North London, where 15-year-old Kiyan was stabbed to death two weeks ago.

"Someone, somewhere has to take the lead on knife crime," he continued. "But where is the leadership coming from? We are happy to tackle unhealthy eating in schools. We have a huge raft of regulations on food - and I don't have an issue with that.

"But when at least 51 people have been stabbed over the weekend nationally then we have to do something about that. How many people have to die before somebody takes this seriously?"

The wave of violence showed no sign of letting up last night.

Anne Marie Cuffy, 26, mother of a three-year-old son, from Bow, East London, was fighting for her life after trying to break up a fight outside a pub in Purfleet, Essex.

She was threatened by two men with an iron bar and a knife. She needed three operations and was last night 'critical but stable'. Barry Wilson, a 29-year-old father of three, was killed standing next to his three-year-old daughter on his doorstep after refusing to lend a local man 40p.

Mr Wilson was stabbed twice - once in the neck and once through the heart - with an 8in kitchen knife on Tuesday afternoon when he returned home after a day spent as a volunteer with a community project in Knowle, Bristol.

Police said a 'petty squabble' had developed outside the victim's house.

As the killer walked away, the victim's older daughter, aged ten, ran from the house screaming: "Daddy has been stabbed."

Yesterday Mr Wilson's partner Maxine Prescott, 27 - who is four months pregnant with their fourth child - said: "Barry was a great bloke. I just can't believe such a terrible thing happened on my own doorstep."

The recent spate of stabbings has come in the midst of an amnesty in which knives can be handed to police without fear of prosecution.

Three weeks ago off-duty special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri was stabbed to death while investigating a disturbance outside her home in Wembley, North London.

Last weekend student Tom Grant, 19, from Gloucestershire, suffered fatal stab wounds after intervening in a domestic row on a train near Kendal, Cumbria.

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[Advocator]

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[DIRACBILANIGIS]

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