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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah and PA Media

Children as young as 12 buying and selling knives and weapons via the internet

Many different kinds of knife on display during the launch of the National Knife Crime Centre in Bloomsbury
Policing and crime minister Sarah Jones said ‘it is too easy to be able to buy and sell and receive knives in this country’ Photograph: PA Video/PA

Children are setting up online businesses selling knives in the same way they trade clothes, the policing and crime minister has said.

Sarah Jones heard how children as young as 12 were buying and selling the weapons on the internet and social media, at the opening of the new National Knife Crime Centre in Bloomsbury, central London, on Thursday.

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