Later ripped down by an irate âvigilanteâ 
In this case, arenât they Irish who caused this?
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69,000 children wounded amid violence in âWild Westâ Britain
Fiona Hamilton, Crime Editor
November 2 2018, 12:01am, The Times
A knife fight at a shopping centre in Luton took place close to toddlersBEDS POLICE/PA
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A senior police officer has said that Britain has become a âWild Westâ, with violence rising steeply and children as young as nine carrying knives.
Jackie Sebire, the National Police Chiefsâ Council spokeswoman for serious violent crime, said that in the year to June there were 69,000 child woundings â a stabbing or other violent incident resulting in a severe injury to a child aged between ten and 15. This was an increase of 4,000 on the year before.
Ms Sebire described a âconstant torrentâ of murders and knife attacks and said that young perpetrators were showing âdisregardâ for the consequences of their actions. She said that the level of violence was worse than anything that she had experienced during her 26-year career.
Ms Sebire, assistant chief constable of Bedfordshire police, told colleagues in central London yesterday: âThis feels completely different. Iâve worked in some really challenging London boroughs. This is different, this level of violence, this constant torrent of every single day there is another stabbing, that we canât seem to get ahead of.â
The figures, from the national crime survey, showed that 29,000 children were victims of a robbery. Homicide is up by 14 per cent and knife possession increased by 21 per cent. In the past five weeks Bedfordshire has dealt with three murders and five attempted murders, all related to drugs. The county lines phenomenon, in which urban gangs move Class A drugs and cash to provincial towns, had moved into the countyâs picturesque villages such as Harrold.
Ms Sebire said that the situation had become more serious in the past 12 months because the perpetrators of knife crime were younger than ever. âI m not surprised when theyâre 12. Weâve seen nine and ten-year-olds, thatâs the thing thatâs changed. It is happening because their brothers are doing it, their friends at school are doing it.â
Ms Sebire said that violent clashes were occuring in public spaces in broad daylight. The âdisregard to some of the consequences or that they might get found out, thatâs what feels different to meâ, she said. âWeâve always had violence, weâve always had people shoot and stab each other. But the level of increase and just how sustained it is, . . . itâs just constant. I worry that if we canât get this right with [agency] partners, and as a society and a community, I do worry that this will continue.â
Ms Sebire, speaking at a joint conference hosted by the council and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, cited a violent clash between teenagers carrying machetes at a shopping centre in Luton in January. âThis isnât a pre-arranged fight, they just bumped into each other. Thereâs people pushing buggies and toddlers just wandering around.â
She showed a video of a youth shooting at a car in a quiet neighbourhood in an incident, still under investigation, that was âeven more like the Wild Westâ. She added: âThis is an afternoon in the school holidays and this could be any of the streets in any of our forces.â
Ms Sebire said that youths needed to be given alternative options to drug dealing, which they were choosing because it was lucrative. When a gang member in Bedford was murdered two hours after publishing a rap video online, his counterparts in the video continued drug dealing. âWe talk about teachable moments. If it is not a teachable moment when your best friend is stabbed to death next to you, I donât know what is. We have a responsibility to make sure weâre there for their siblings, the members of the communities yet to be drawn into that lifestyle.â
Mike Barton, chief constable of Durham and the national spokesman on serious organised crime, told the conference: âThis isnât going to go away. It feels like a crisis.â
Dave Thompson, chief constable of the West Midlands, said that some young people were leading âincredibly street-based lives that are incredibly violentâ. He questioned how intervention was to be provided without facilities and resources. Only two youth centres were left in Birmingham, where 50 per cent of the population of 1.1 million was aged under 25.
A 15-year-old boy became the latest violent crime victim last night. The boy died after he was stabbed at Bellingham in south-east London about 5.20pm. Police were called and the victim was taken to hospital, but he was pronounced dead at 8.15pm. No arrests have been made.
I had a chance to punch a police horse in a London police stationâs stables this morning, but I bottled it.
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Heâs goading you and all
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Heâs mugged you right off there
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You are not supposed to use a plastic bottle.
Is the cunt really going to turn up?
#marginalgains
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