Merlin the Magician
At the Start
Really sad state of affairs this! at any time of the year but to happen just short of Christmas makes it twice as bad....
Innocent people going about their own business and this happens, look at the figures of people who have lost their lives through a knife being used either stabbed-slashed a really alarming number in the U/K this past year.....
LONDON (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man has killed one person and critically injured five others in a series of apparently random morning rush-hour attacks across north London just days before Christmas, police say.
A man with a history of mental illness was arrested in connection with the stabbings on Thursday.
Knife crime is rising sharply across the country, prompting the government to consider new laws raising the minimum age of knife ownership and extending the range of banned weapons.
Last year 272 people were knifed to death nationwide, an increase of 35 percent in five years, while at the same time 80 people were shot dead.
In some parts of London the problem is so bad that schools have introduced metal scanners to root out hidden knives.
Police said the suspect, described as about 30 years old and of Turkish origin, had driven in a car to at least five different locations to stage the attacks.
"We could be dealing with a person who has mental illness, certainly the person in custody has a history of mental illness," Chief Superintendent Simon O'Brien told reporters.
"It looks like a complete random cross section, both male and female, ethnicity as well, it seems to be random."
One 20-year-old woman was taken to the London heart hospital and three men were in surgery on Thursday. A fourth man was in a high dependency unit.
A spokesman for the capital's Metropolitan Police said that while such attacks were not unheard off, the fact that the attacker appeared to be driving around and selecting his victims at random did make it unique.
"I don't recall anything like that before in London," he told Reuters.
Thursday morning's attack was the second fatal stabbing in two days in north London.
On Wednesday a shop keeper was knifed to death in Wood Green after he chased two thieves who stole two bottles of spirits from his shop.
Innocent people going about their own business and this happens, look at the figures of people who have lost their lives through a knife being used either stabbed-slashed a really alarming number in the U/K this past year.....
LONDON (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man has killed one person and critically injured five others in a series of apparently random morning rush-hour attacks across north London just days before Christmas, police say.
A man with a history of mental illness was arrested in connection with the stabbings on Thursday.
Knife crime is rising sharply across the country, prompting the government to consider new laws raising the minimum age of knife ownership and extending the range of banned weapons.
Last year 272 people were knifed to death nationwide, an increase of 35 percent in five years, while at the same time 80 people were shot dead.
In some parts of London the problem is so bad that schools have introduced metal scanners to root out hidden knives.
Police said the suspect, described as about 30 years old and of Turkish origin, had driven in a car to at least five different locations to stage the attacks.
"We could be dealing with a person who has mental illness, certainly the person in custody has a history of mental illness," Chief Superintendent Simon O'Brien told reporters.
"It looks like a complete random cross section, both male and female, ethnicity as well, it seems to be random."
One 20-year-old woman was taken to the London heart hospital and three men were in surgery on Thursday. A fourth man was in a high dependency unit.
A spokesman for the capital's Metropolitan Police said that while such attacks were not unheard off, the fact that the attacker appeared to be driving around and selecting his victims at random did make it unique.
"I don't recall anything like that before in London," he told Reuters.
Thursday morning's attack was the second fatal stabbing in two days in north London.
On Wednesday a shop keeper was knifed to death in Wood Green after he chased two thieves who stole two bottles of spirits from his shop.
best bloody thing to happen to this country in a long time, was Thatcher.....
