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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Anthony France

Furious parents demand action as knife thugs ‘overrun’ enclave near Willesden Green Tube station

Angry parents have voiced fears about rising violent crime in the north west London area where a masked knifeman paused his restaurant attack to start filming the stabbing on his phone.

A campaign has been launched by Carmen Lopez whose A-level student son Lucas, 17, was robbed at knifepoint by four youths - one armed with a machete - near Willesden Green station. But she was horrified when a police investigation closed “pretty much straight away”.

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