Notting Hill Carnival should become ticketed event to prevent violent crime, says former Met detective

The Notting Hill Carnival should become a ticketed event to prevent violent crime, a former Metropolitan Police detective has said.

Peter Bleksley has also called for Carnival to be "re-positioned" to a location such as Hyde Park to help make the annual London event "better policed" and "more secure".This comes after police confirmed a 32-year-old mother and a tourist died after being attacked in separate incidents while attending the event last weekend.Cher Maximen, 32, was at the event last Sunday with her child when she was stabbed. She died on Saturday morning, police confirmed.

The former Met detective said: “He ticketed the New Year’s Eve fireworks display, so there is precedent for ticketing a large scale event with hundreds of thousands people attending it in London and thereby giving it a greater element of control.” Data on Carnival from the Met shows in the six events since and including 2017, there have been 62 stabbings.

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