Knife murder parents plead with killers July 7, 2008 The parents of one of the two French students murdered in London a week ago in a frenzied knife attack appealed yesterday for the killer to come forward and said they would not rest until the guilty party was found. Bio-engineering students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were bound, gagged and repeatedly stabbed [...]
Police arrest 1,200 in knife crackdown July 3, 2008 Police have arrested 1,214 people in London during a six-week crackdown on knife crime, Scotland Yard said yesterday. Officers found 528 knives after conducting nearly 27,000 searches during Operation Blunt 2, launched after Boris Johnson was elected London Mayor in May pledging to tackle knife crime in the capital. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair announced [...]