‘Like fires everywhere’: West Midlands becomes a youth knife-crime hotspot
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The causes are numerous and complex, but it is the scale and the age of those involved that alarms adults on the frontline.
By Ben Quinn
With a metallic creak, the door to one of Birmingham’s ‘weapons surrender bins’ opened to reveal a plethora of blades, from kitchen knives to karambits, claw-shaped knives commonly used in south-east Asian martial arts which have lately featured in some computer games.
It was a collection that had been building in the windswept car park of a church in the Hockley area of the city before being unlocked last week.
Despite being dismissed by some as a PR stunt, the container is one of a network of 12 in the West Midlands that is be expanded as part of a range of measures in a region that has experienced the biggest increase in knife crime outside of London.
The fatal stabbing in Coventry on Saturday of 16-year-old Jaydon Washington James – killed, according to his sister, because of his postcode – brought the number of teenagers and younger children k...
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