Away from the soundbites and alarmist rhetoric we wanted to give space for real, honest stories told by those personally involved in this epidemic. In our Knife Crime Report, we bring together four voices with four perspectives: Jessica Plummer talks of the agonising loss of her 17-year-old son, Shaquan; Martin Griffiths, lead surgeon in the Royal London Hospital’s trauma unit, gives a frank account from the front line; we hear from PC Graeme Halleron, a schools’ officer for the Met Police, on his crusade to educate children; and ‘Jacob’ remembers the snap decisions that first made him reach for a knife.
