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Solving knife crime will take a decade, says Sadiq Khan

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

By: Keerthi Mohan

Solving knife crime in London will take a decade, Sadiq Khan admitted. The murder rate in London has risen to 118 this year, and the London Mayor said the involvement of primary children in knife crime meant his strategy to tackle it, modelled on Glasgow, was going to take “some time.” “To really make significant progress can take up to 10 years, a generation,” Khan said, according to the Telegraph. “They saw in Scotland what we are seeing in London, which is children in primary schools thinking not only is it OK to carry a knife. “It gives them a sense…

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