Una donna, 34 anni, è morta dopo essere stata pugnalata al collo a Birmingham

“Djeison Rafael” How are we pronouncing that? I genuinely have no idea.

Between this and the Oldham murder, we really need details.

I refuse to accept “mental illness” as the rationale for all these murders.
And I’m fed up of people pointing at line graphs saying “you don’t need to worry about random knife attacks because overall knife crime is going down”. Here’s a novel idea, let’s split knife crime out into “teen drug dealers stabbing each other” and “random people getting butchered in the street”?

Getting randomly stabbed to death in the street has Always Been Part Of Life In Britain

Women aren’t weary enough these days. It’s never been more dangerous

I am in my 40s and even growing up in 1990s Birmingham had an issue with black kids and knives.

I would say every one of my friendship group was either mugged or theatened by a gang of black kids either on buses into town or around the city centre.

I myself was threatened inside a mcdonalds with my then girlfriend and a few of her mates. They said unless we all gave them money they would stab me.

Even at school our headmaster talked about a culture where it seemed the wrong look could end you in trouble.

But we have been petrified for 30+ years to say this community in particular has a knife issue. I have older teen kids now and I am close to stopping any of them go into Birmingham city centre with friends.