Posted on 06/09/2026 9:32:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The number of “threat to kill” knife offences in London has risen to close to a record high, official figures reveal.
There were 154 such attacks in April, up from 126 in March, 92 in February and 127 in January, according to Metropolitan Police data.
The alarming new figure is the second highest on record, going back to 2015, and sparked a heated political row over law and order in London.
While overall knife crime is down in London, the city has been rocked in recent weeks by a series of fatal and other serious stabbings.
In what appears to be a worrying sign of how blades are being used, there were 1,422 “threat to kill” knife offences recorded in the year to April 2026, up by 192 from 1,230 in the previous 12 months.
The highest monthly number of “threat to kill” knife offences was 159 in October 2022.
It has only risen above 150 on two other occasions, in July last year at 151 and August 2022 at 153.
There is often an increase in crime in the summer months.
In one of the latest knife attacks, a singer-songwriter who worked with stars including Dua Lipa, Zendaya and Britney Spears died after being stabbed in London on Friday.
Talay Riley, 35, was found at an address in Silvertown, east London, at around 9am on Friday having suffered stab wounds, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
In one shocking incident last month youths were filmed fighting in broad daylight in a south London park with machetes.
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Third World problems in London. How did that happen?
This is coming to the USA very soon.
Everyone be on full alert.
Good thing they have gun control - and knife control.
Climate change?
Poinn’ted stcks to be banned in 3…2…
How did London get this way?
People either don’t know or conveniently forget that Starmer was human rights lawyer (EU). He won a UK court case establishing that illegals were refugees. Since refugees they are entitled to all the benefits of the UK welfare system.
Jack the Ripper laughing in hell
Import muslims and this is what you get. The Brits were all in, so proud of themselves for being open and tolerant. They should have listened to Churchill:
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
Obviously it’s the racist while man’s fault.
You'll have to gnaw your steak from a fork,
that is, until they ban forks.The descend into savagery is inexorable, as the psychotic Left sinks deeper and deeper into madness.Then they'll be back to eating with their hands.Until strangulation attacks soar to near-record high. Then what will they do? Chop off people's hands prophylactically?
We must immediately declare Sheria law and communism as alien ideologies incompatible with our Constituion
Most restaurants in London now only give plastic knives or no knives at all.
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