One man's fight to get knives off the streets of London – video – AuthenticAfrican

Posted on by Kyri Evangelou, Maeve Shearlaw and Katie Lamborn

Shocked by a series of stabbings in his area of east London, Courtney Barrett set up his own knife amnesty in an effort to get blades off the streets. As he collects 25 knives from members of the public outside Leytonstone tube station, he explains why he is volunteering to do something that is traditionally the job of the police

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