The failure to tackle knife crime is a “national crisis”, grieving families have warned, after a “bright and funny” schoolgirl became the 15th teenager to die in the capital so far this year.
The heartbroken parents of Elianne Andam, 15, said their lives had “fallen apart” after the GSCE student was stabbed in the neck on her way to school in Croydon, south London, on Wednesday.
