Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has called for “higher sentencing” for knife crime offenders after his cousin was stabbed to death at the weekend, but is knife crime really getting worse, and would longer sentences work?
Rico Burton, 31, died in Manchester Royal Infirmary on Sunday after being stabbed in the early hours outside a pub in Altrincham. A teenager was also injured in the incident.
Fury wrote on his Instagram account, which has 5.7 million followers: “My cousin was murdered last night, stabbed in the neck this is becoming ridiculous … idiots carry knives. This needs to stop. Asap, UK government needs to bring higher sentencing for knife crime.”…