Notts Police boss backs survivor's campaign for knives to have blunt ends

DANCE TEACHER WAS CRITICALLY INJURED IN SOUTHPORT KILLINGS

- By LOUIS CORBETT

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE'S Police and Crime Commissioner has echoed a Southport survivor's calls for pointed knives to be replaced with blunt-ended ones in an effort to help combat knife crime across the nation.

A dance teacher who survived the Southport murders, Leanne Lucas, has started a new campaign calling for pointed knives to be replaced by ones with blunt tips after being critically injured during the attack.

Axel Rudakubana, 17 at the time of the attack, has been jailed for a minimum of 52 years after he carried out the murder of three young girls - Alice Aguiar, Dot Stancombe and Bebe King, in an event that shook the country.