Sir Keir has pledged to chair an annual summit to track progress towards his goal of halving knife crime within a decade.
Idris Elba and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer meet families of knife crime victims at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, west London
Pastor Lorraine Jones told Sir Keir, and actor and anti-knife crime campaigner Elba, at a meeting in Hammersmith, west London, that she saw her son, Dwayne Simpson, killed with “one jab wound” that “went straight through his heart”. She said: “We want to be around the table with you, because we do have the answers right now. We’ve got patrols, Idris, volunteers that are patrolling before school and after school, because we haven’t got enough police officers.“And the most brutal thing is we’re saying it’s becoming the norm.“It’s not normal for us to be burying our children, or five-year-olds seeing dead bodies and shrines in our neighbourhood.
He said: “I’ve had conversations which are difficult, like ‘Idris, you’re telling people to put away our knives, but what am I going to hold?’.
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