Professor John Robertson OBA From the Ben Kinsella Trust, a charity that tackles knife crime through education and campaigning, yesterday: New figures [England & Wales] show a 5% drop in knife-enabled offences, with 51,527 incidents recorded in the year ending June 2025… Down from 54,215 the previous year and 7% lower than pre-pandemic levels. https://benkinsella.org.uk/knife-crime-offences-hit-their-lowest-level-since-before-pandemic/ The comparable figure in Scotland, 5% up, on the previous year, was 1 958. https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2024-25/documents/recorded-crime-in-scotland-2024-25-tables/ All things being equal, you’d expect the figure for England & Wales to be 11 times greater, 21 538 but was, in fact, 51 527, between two and three times … Continue reading Knife-enabled crime falls in England and Wales but to still TWO to THREE times higher than in Scotland