Knife crime stands at record highs at over 40,000 offences in the last year, with London being at the epicentre of the violence.

Just this week, on August 1, a 23-year-old man was stabbed to death in Camberwell.

In July, dozens of others were impacted by knife crime in the capital, including a teenage boy who was stabbed on a busy Islington street, a 17-year-old in Camberwell during the day and a middle-aged man inside a Leicester Square casino.

With 40,147 offences, knife crime in England and Wales is now at its highest level since the data began to be collected in 2011.

There has been a 56.9 per cent increase in knife crime since 2014, when a low of 25,588 offences was recorded by police.