Ban on zombie-style knives and machetes comes into force
Nearly 10,000 of the offences recorded in 2023 involved machetes, double the number from five years before, the broadcaster reported.
On Tuesday a ban on owning zombie-style knives and machetes comes into force, following a four-week amnesty scheme where owners were encouraged to hand the weapons into police, local authorities or knife crime charities.
The ban is part of efforts to reduce knife crime, with campaigners including actor Idris Elba pushing for the large blades to be outlawed.
The Government plans to also ban ninja swords in the future.
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11 comments
We sould be proud of our zombie knife crime statistics.
Is that the same bbc the hire child predators I never trust a word the bbc says
Ban everything… brilliant idea.
Ban knives
So.. did the BBC find out how many of these knives and tools were handed in? Did the BBC find out which demographic are seen waving machetes and swords in our streets?
Think I’ll stick with guns ty
I wonder about the demographic carrying them
Londoners are wild
It's not the knives
There was no diversity about the kind of people who have them 🤔
Just to show that there doing something why they do nothing .