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Brendan Curran calls for an end to knife culture

Published: 16 October, 2008

Over the past few years the number of incidents involving knives, including death and serious injury has increased dramatically in this area and that it just not acceptable

The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) in June said that around 1,000 crimes involving a knife are recorded every year in the North across all age groups and in a five year period over 450 young people have been injured or threatened with knife


Mr. Curran said


"The increased culture of carrying knives especially amongst young people needs to be seriously addressed .We need to get the message out to our young people that carrying or using a knife is dangerous, totally wrong, and we also need to educate them of the foolishness of carrying weapons so that they are not criminalised at an early age due to peer pressure and youth culture