MP's knife crime plea to PM

STARMER TELLS OF ACTION BEING TAKEN AFTER HARPREET UPPAL RAISES LOCAL CONCERNS IN PMQS

- By ABIGAIL MARLOW

The Prime Minister responds to a question from MP Harpreet Uppal. The Huddersfield MP raised the killing of Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim (inset left)

HUDDERSFIELD MP Harpreet Uppal is calling on the government to increase its efforts to tackle serious violence and knife crime in light of devastating local incidents.

Ms Uppal raised the matter at Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), speaking of its importance to local people.

She paid tribute to Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, who was killed in April, noting that “his life was cruelly taken away in what the police described as an unprovoked and motiveless attack”