The number of deaths with a bladed instrument—mostly knives—in England and Wales was the highest since records began in 1946, with 282 people losing their lives between April 2021 and March 2022, according to a report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The number of homicides using a knife or other sharp instrument went up by 19 percent from the previous year.
The increase was driven by an 18 percent increase in the number of young men dying, with the number of male victims aged 16 to 17 years jumping from 10 to 24.
One of those teenage victims was Levi Ernest-Morrison, 17, who was stabbed to death in Sydenham, southeast London after being chased by a gang armed with knives and a machete….