A specialist paramedic who knows all too well the havoc knife crime can wreak has shared a stark warning about how knives ruin lives.
Shaun Robson, who works at the North East Ambulance Service, has spoke of the brutal reality of knife crime as part of ChronicleLive's Stop Knives Taking Lives campaign. Backed by police, politicians and victims' families, the campaign is calling on everyone in the North East to come together to help tackle knife crime.
This comes after the tragic deaths of three teenagers - Holly Newton, Gordon Gault and Tomasz Olesczak - in recent months.