STAB INJURIES UP!

Stab injuries up!

The number of people admitted to hospital with stab injuries has shot up by nearly a third since Labour came to power and at one hospital, the number of seriously injured stab victims has more than quadrupled in the last five years! (Stab victims up)

And in evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Professor Karim Brohi, a trauma surgeon at Barts and the London NHS Trust, said much of the increase was due to territorial teenage gangs linked to schools or postcode areas.

And between 2003 and 2006 admittances for serious knife injuries went up from 68 to 258 and this year it is expected to hit 278, and in teenagers under 20 the numbers increased from 9 in 2003 to 71 this year!

Mr Brohi told MPs that more than half of the stabbings he saw were clearly intended to be fatal, with attackers aiming at or hitting the victim's head or chest!

Dr Bob Golding, former assistant chief constable of Warwickshire Police, told the committee that police chiefs told him there were gangs in every major town and that "People escalate in the current gang climate to extreme violence much quicker than was hitherto the case."

Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said: "The Government must answer our call for a presumption of imprisonment for knife possession, and greater powers for stop and search in hotspot areas."

But there's no chance of that happening since, while more than 2,500 people have been stabbed to death in the years since Labour came to power, only nine of the countless criminals caught with knives have been given the maximum jail term!

In 2006 some 1,226 under-18s were found guilty of carrying a blade yet only 72 were put behind bars with the typical offender spending just eight weeks in jail while the remainder escaped with a fine, a community sentence or - in 113 cases - a discharge. Only one of the 7,817 knife offenders of all ages received the maximum sentence!

And it is no wonder that "people escalate...to extreme violence much quicker than was hitherto the case" - simply because they have no concern, repect or fear of such pathetic sentences!

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