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More and more young people are being killed on the city\u2019s streets. What\u2019s driving the rise in violence?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nAfter a long day at work, Tilisha Goupall returned to her London home, made dinner and switched on the TV, just like any other night. It was after 10.30 p.m. that she realized her 15-year-old brother, Jermaine, was more than an hour late home from the movies, so she sent him a message on Snapchat. He never read it.
\nJust minutes later, a police officer and a friend of Jermaine\u2019s knocked at her door — her little brother had been stabbed, they told her. They led Goupall to a spot just two streets away, where the 26-year-old saw blood seeping onto the pavement from a police tent. She pushed past onlookers to talk to the authorities, only to be told Jermaine was dead.
\n\u201cI just collapsed and cried — the trauma from that moment made everything black,\u201d Goupall told CNN at her home, in the south London borough of Croydon. It\u2019s a scene that\u2019s become all too familiar in London, where knife crime is soaring, mostly among young men and boys, some of them incredibly young.
\nAmong just two of the many recent incidents: a 14-year-old boy was left in a critical condition after being stabbed in the stomach by an 11-year-old in July, according to reports. And in the east London borough of Newham, two boys, aged 16 and 13, were convicted of grievous bodily harm for stabbing another 13-year-old boy in September.
\nFrom June 2017 to June 2018, the latest period for which figures exist, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) recorded nearly 40,000 knife or sharp instrument crime offenses. This was the highest in the eight years for which data is available, and a 12% increase over 12 months. Despite the rise, these specific crimes are relatively rare, when compared to the frequency of other violent attacks, according to the ONS.
\nAnd in February this year, London\u2019s monthly homicide rate briefly overtook New York\u2019s for the first time in history. The ONS report says homicides in London rose 14% in the 12 months to June 2018. This year alone, the UK capital has seen 131 murders, police say.
\nJermaine\u2019s death, in August last year, was a horrible case of mistaken identity, Goupall said, a view that has been backed by police. Before his death, rival gangs had been wielding knives and threatening to kill each other in drill music videos posted on YouTube, which have since been taken down. The gang members who killed Jermaine thought he was from a rival gang, according to Goupall.
\nThe gang members, masked and armed with knives, approached Jermaine and some friends in a car. His friends managed to hide, but Jermaine tried to run home and was stabbed in the right thigh, an injury from which he died, Goupall said.
\nIn February, three young men, aged 17 to 21, were found guilty of murder, while an 18-year-old woman was also convicted for manslaughter over Jermaine\u2019s death.
\nOne of the rooms in the Goupalls\u2019 home, where Tilisha still lives with her father, has been transformed into a memorial with flowers, candles and photographs of Jermaine. \u201cI miss everything about him. He was a very loving, funny and happy person,\u201d she said, looking at the photographs of her brother.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to look at pictures, but I know what they meant when they were taken. When I watch a video and see him laugh, I cry, thinking, \u2018That\u2019s Jermaine — that\u2019s my brother.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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