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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Margaret Davis

Knife age checks ‘a huge vulnerability’ at sale and delivery, review finds

The Home Office has unveiled a range of plans to try to restrict online knife sales (Jacob King/PA) - (PA Archive)

Age verification for buying knives online is “a huge vulnerability” at sale and delivery, a review has found, with thousands of weapons also sold illegally on social media.

Metropolitan Police Commander Stephen Clayman, who is the national lead for knife crime, said it is sometimes harder to buy paracetamol than it is to buy a knife.

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