Stabbings are becoming the norm in Croydon ‘like a trip to McDonald’s’ say knife crime campaigners

Children have become desensitised to knife crime in Croydon as crime rates escalate. Since being stuck with the unwanted badge of knife crime capital in 2021, things seemed to be getting better for Croydon with no teenage deaths from knife crime in 2022.

But already this year things have taken a turn for the worse.