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Dramatic footage shows people and restaurant staff fleeing Borough Market on Saturday night as armed police move in on three men attacking members of the public. One man is helped from the area after being injured

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People flee Borough Market amid London Bridge attack - video

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Dramatic footage shows people and restaurant staff fleeing Borough Market on Saturday night as armed police move in on three men attacking members of the public. One man is helped from the area after being injured

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London: Youngsters talk about their knife crime experience

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This piece first broadcast on 31 Oct 2012. Televised on UK's regional television BBC One. Programme (Program) -- London News.

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Police are investigating after two men were stabbed to death within 24 hours in London, bringing the number of people killed by knives in the capital to six in a week.

Officers were called on Friday afternoon to reports of an altercation in Peckham Rye, south-east London, Scotland Yard said. The London ambulance service and officers found a man, believed to be aged in his 20s, with stab wounds; he was pronounced dead at 3.51pm.

Earlier on Friday a man was found stabbed on a bus in central London. The 48-year-old was found on the 189 bus in Gloucester Place, near Dorset Square in Marylebone in the early hours. Paramedics tended to the man but he was declared dead at the scene.

A Metropolitan police spokesperson said no arrests had been made in connection with the Marylebone incident and next of kin had yet to be informed. "Detectives are still at the location and inquiries are under way into the circumstances of when and where the stabbing took place," the force said.

Police believe they know the identity of the man found in Marylebone, but await formal identification. The investigation is being led by DCI Noel McHugh of the homicide and major crime command. McHugh said: "I believe the victim boarded the bus at Brent Cross bus station at 23:13hrs on Thursday 27 April.

"I want to hear from anyone who was at Brent Cross bus station or who travelled on the 189 bus from Brent Cross towards the Marylebone area at around that time.

"It is crucial that we speak with any potential witnesses. Even if you do not believe you saw anything significant, if you were at the bus station at around 11pm or on the bus then please call the incident room."

A 31-year-old man is also in a critical condition after being found in Dulwich Park, south London, with stab wounds to his head at about 1pm on Thursday. Detectives in Southwark are appealing for witnesses.

London stabbings six in a week

Last weekend three people including a 17-year-old boy were stabbed to death in London. Mohammed Hasan was chased down and fatally stabbed by a masked gang in Battersea, south London, in the early hours of Sunday morning. A 19-year-old was arrested at an address in nearby Wandsworth on suspicion of murder.

On Saturday afternoon, Damien McLaughlin, 42, of Cheshunt, was stabbed to death in Enfield, north London. Omar Warner, 18, and a 17-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons have been charged with murder.

Just after midnight on Monday another murder investigation was launched in Bow, east London, after a 60-year-old man was found dead with stab wounds and another man was injured. The victim has since been identified as Keith Sinclair.

On Tuesday a 24-year-old man was fatally stabbed. Police and paramedics found the victim, named as Abdullah Hammia, at 7pm on Tuesday in a residential street in Wandsworth, south-west London, after reports of a stabbing. A 30-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of murder several hours later but released with no further action.

Police-recorded crime figures released this week showed a 13-14% increase in gun and knife crime in 2016. Bill Skelly, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said on Thursday: "The trend, which had been declining for many years but has now begun to climb more sharply, is a key priority for the police service."

The Met said gun and knife crime rose 42% and 24% respectively in the past year and that recorded crime was up across virtually every category, in figures released two days after Cressida Dick took over as commissioner.

Steve O'Connell, the chair of London assembly's police and crime committee, said he was "immensely concerned" about the numbers.

"It is the number one crime and safety issue in London today. We are seeing over the last year to 18 months an increased readiness by young people to settle their differences via knives in a violent manner," he said.

"There's a police issue around it, because clearly there needs to be preventative action, and also people who use violence need to be taken off the streets, but it has to go deeper than that. Why are predominately young men leaving home with a knife and settling their differences with that?"

O'Connell, who is also a Croydon councillor, said: "We've had a terrible last couple of weeks. This isn't normal, it's not business as usual. This is reaching levels which are unacceptable from a police and mayoral view and we need to get to grips with it."

In a briefing last week, Martin Hewitt, the Met's assistant commissioner, sought to pin some of the blame for increases in gun and knife crime in London on cuts to funding. "It would be a naive answer to say that if you cut a significant amount out of an organisation, you don't have any consequences," he said.

Since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 the Met has made £600m in savings, and it will have to find a further £400m by 2020.

Hewitt also said there had been an increase in the number of young people carrying knives, with only a quarter of those carrying a blade linked to gangs. The Met suspects the increase is partly down to people increasingly believing in the need a knife for self-protection, and Hewitt said on a recent school visit to a class of 10-year-olds that three-quarters of the children said they knew someone who carried a knife.

Gary Trowsdale, the founder of the Spirit of London awards and an adviser to the cross-party parliamentary campaign to end youth violence in the UK, said one of the biggest reasons for more young people carrying knives was a lack of faith in police.

"This is the elephant in the room nobody talks about and never seems to have been addressed," he said. "The taboo subject of total lack of faith the black youth community has in the police, which I personally think is crazy as the vast majority of police want very much to help young people and keep them safe.

"The hierarchy at Scotland Yard need to work with the mayor's office and community groups to put this mistrust issue to bed as a priority. Heavy-handed policing is clearly not going to work."

Trowsdale said falling police numbers and low morale were also contributing factors. "Violence is a disease and police are not doctors. We have whole communities now living in trauma where extreme violence is normalised in young lives. Our establishment is failing abysmally," he said.

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Peckham stabbing is sixth knife crime death in London in a week

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Police are investigating after two men were stabbed to death within 24 hours in London, bringing the number of people killed by knives in the capital to six in a week. Officers were called on Friday afternoon to reports of an altercation in Peckham Rye, south-east London, Scotland Yard said.

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Knife Crime in London (1980's) | Thames News Archive Footage

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Knife crime in London during the 1980's. Thames News Archive Footage Subscribe for more: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBE_ThamesNews To licence this footage please contact archive@fremantlemedia.com Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Thames ITV region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992.