{"id":153626,"date":"2025-06-03T02:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153626\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T02:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:10:16","slug":"cops-catch-10-year-old-with-knife-in-edinburgh-as-truly-shocking-stats-show-primary-kids-carry-blades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153626\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops catch 10-year-old with knife in Edinburgh as “truly shocking” stats show primary kids carry blades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are catching a child with a knife every four days \u2014 including primary pupils \u2014 as new stats expose the scale of youth violence in Scotland.\"HoodedKnife crime in increasing among youths.(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

A 10-year-old child was caught carrying a knife<\/a> in Edinburgh as “truly shocking” new figures reveal dozens of children – including primary school pupils – have been found with blades across Scotland this year.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland<\/a> seized knives from at least 91 under-18s in 2024 using stop-and-search powers, meaning a child is being caught with a weapon every four days.<\/p>\n

The alarming statistics come just weeks after the death of schoolboy Kayden Moy,<\/a> the third teenager to lose his life to youth violence in the past year.<\/p>\n

Multiple incidents involving children as young as 12 being caught with knives occurred in Edinburgh, Ayrshire, Glasgow and Lanarkshire, according to an analysis by justice magazine 1919<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"KaydenKayden Moy died after he was fatally “stabbed” at Irvine Beach on May 17(Image: Police Scotland \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n

More than a dozen 13-year-olds – including two girls – were also subjected to positive blade searches. Teens<\/a> now account for almost a third of positive knife searches across all age groups.<\/p>\n

The disturbing incidents prompted warnings of a \u201cyouth violence epidemic\u201d which has been repeatedly highlighted by the Record’s Our Kids… Our Future <\/a>campaign, launched two years ago<\/a> after we reported a worrying series of attacks on teens across the country.<\/p>\n

The Scottish Government<\/a> is now under intensified pressure onto act after several high-profile cases.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Record’s youth violence campaign Our Kids … Our Future<\/p>\n

Labour <\/a>justice spokesperson Pauline McNeill said: \u201cThese shocking figures are yet another sign that there is a youth violence epidemic emerging in Scotland.<\/p>\n

“The SNP has created a perfect storm by cutting youth work services, letting police numbers fall, and mismanaging mental health and education.<\/p>\n

“Every one of these 91 cases is very serious for our communities and potentially for those actually carrying the weapon.<\/p>\n

“The only way to tackle this effectively is to have early intervention schemes that get to the root cause.”<\/p>\n

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The Scottish Conservatives <\/a>blamed \u201csoft-touch\u201d sentencing for under-25s, claiming it has emboldened young offenders.<\/p>\n

Sharon Dowey MSP said: \u201cKnife crime has spiralled out of control. There must be meaningful punishments for those who use a knife and expanded stop-and-search powers for police to act as a deterrent.<\/p>\n

“The SNP\u2019s soft-touch attitude towards justice represents an abject dereliction of duty by John Swinney\u2019s government.”<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Kennedy, General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation(Image: Daily Record)<\/p>\n

Scottish Police Federation chair, David Threadgold, added: “This is a concerning societal trend we now see emerging among younger members of our communities in Scotland,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach of these statistics is a real situation which created significant risk for my colleagues, as well as potentially life changing consequences for the perpetrator, and sadly, the victims of knife crime, their families and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solution to this problem cannot rest alone with the police; much greater and more effective preventative strategies have to be in place.”<\/p>\n

\"FirstFirst Minister John Swinney recently spoke to Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon on the issue of knife crime.<\/p>\n

First Minister John Swinney recently said the Government’s strategy would focus on three steps \u2013 educating young people on the dangers of knives<\/a>, police searches of people who they think may be carrying a knife and punishment of those caught with weapons.<\/p>\n

A Scottish Government spokesperson said: \u201cStop and search powers should be used where lawful, necessary and proportionate. Their use in individual cases is an operational matter for Police Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice do use stop and search, and it is one tool to tackle violence alongside a range of other measures such as prevention and education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are catching a child with a knife every four days \u2014 including primary pupils \u2014 as new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,2266,918,4884,7852,7898,12151,528,530,857,712,65373,8545,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-153626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-john-swinney","14":"tag-justice","15":"tag-knife-crime","16":"tag-labour-party","17":"tag-police-scotland","18":"tag-schools","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-scottish-conservative-party","21":"tag-scottish-national-party","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114617006590911744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}