Blunt kitchen knives to help reduce stabbings, says Elba

Actor Idris Elba has suggested more action can be taken to make kitchen knives safer to reduce stabbings across the country.

- JABED AHMED

The 52-year-old was speaking ahead of the release yesterday of Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis, a documentary which sees the Luther star spend 12 months exploring the reality of the UK’s stabbing epidemic.

Elba claimed that around 25 per cent of stabbings are perpetrated using knives commonly found at home, and “areas of innovation” could help reduce this.

“Not all kitchen knives need to have a point on them, that sounds like a crazy thing to say,” he told BBC Radio 4. “But you can still cut your food without the point on your knife, which is an innovative way to look at it.”

There were more 50,000 serious knife crime offences recorded in England in the year ending June 2024. London has the highest rate of serious knife crimes.