'One knife crime is too many': Smethwick MP raises issue in House of Commons
A Sandwell MP has spoken about how much knife crime affects society and the work needed to stop it.
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Smethwick MP Gurinder Josan spoke in the House of Commons on Wednesday at Prime Ministers Questions about young people and knives and the recent death of Jahziah Coke who was stabbed in his home in Oldbury.
The MP said that any incident of knife crime was one too many and said that he felt the authorities needed to be doing something about it.
He said: "The figures that we see for knife crime are too high and one of the things I've been saying is that knife crime has been a major issue for a while now, with the latest incident being a 13-year-old being killed in his own home.
"There's something there and we need to understand what's going on and we need to not just treat this as a criminal act, although it is and it's got to go through the criminal justice system, but also take a public health approach so that we can better understand what's happening among our young people that's leading them to carry knives and think that's an acceptable thing to do.
