Family of Yousef Makki call for more action on knife crime after latest fatal stabbing
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe family of Yousef Makki have called for more action to tackle knife crime after another teenager was stabbed to death. Yousef, a talented 17-year-old bursary student at Manchester Grammar School, from Burnage, was fatally stabbed in Hale Barns on March 2, 2019.
On Saturday night, Kennie Carter, 16, was stabbed to death on the The Lakes estate in Stretford. READ MORE: New Highway Code rules have changed how drivers overtake As police today (Tuesday) urged people to hand in knives as part of another knives amnesty, Yousef's family expressed sympathy for the grieving family of Kennie Carter, but urged for more action on knife crime.
The most up-to-date figures show a steep rise in knife crime in Greater Manchester since 2018. Some 3,363 serious crimes involving a knife were recorded in Greater Manchester in the year ending June 2021, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics which show the number of such crimes climbed steadily in 2020 and 2019.
However, the number of serious knife crimes recorded was historically much lover, with 1,953 recorded in the year to March 2018.
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