British minister calls for new approach to end knife crime

British Home Secretary Amber Rudd called on Monday for "a different approach" to tackling the "terrible" toll of knife deaths as a 19-year-old became the fifth London teenage this year to die in a stabbing.

Rudd said "incentives" would be provided in a "different approach" to knife crime. It would see more emphasis placed on helping communities spread the anti-blade message, Xinhua reported.

The home secretary said more money would be invested in "early intervention" schemes that seek to divert young people away from carrying blades, as part of a new anti-violence strategy.

Rudd's comments come in the wake of a surge in fatal stabbings in London. In the latest tragedy, Lewis Blackman died on Sunday after clashes on a street in West London.

Rudd said each death was a "disaster and tragedy."

--IANS

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