Noel is relocating from the capital amid the knife crime epidemic (Picture: PA)

Noel Gallagher has revealed that he is relocating his family from London as the city is too dangerous to raise his kids in.

The father of three lives with his family and wife Sara MacDonald in the capital, but opened up about his fears for his children – Anaïs, 19, Donovan, 11, and Sonny, eight – in the city.

‘We didn’t want the kids growing up in London,’ he told the Irish Independent. ‘We’ve had two stabbings outside our house in the last while.

‘I live, as you can imagine, in quite an affluent area. At one end of the street is one housing estate and the other end is another housing estate, and they are currently at war.’




He continued: ‘One guy was multiple [sic] stabbed in the middle of the f***king day and an air ambulance had to come and land in the middle of the street and all the streets were taped off.’

With two sons under the age of 13, the Oasis frontman wanted to get away from London before they began using public transport on their own.

Noel’s daughter Anais, son Donovan and wife Sara in 2016 (Picture: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock)

He explained: ‘Our lad [Donovan] is 11 and is now coming to go to secondary school and we were just saying it would be too f**king stressful if he is on the Tube and he is coming home and he is being mugged for his phone.

‘So we decided that we are going to go out to the country and put them to school in the country. We’ll just commute into London.’

Noel may not agree with his brother Liam on very much, but his former bandmate has also recently voiced his concerns about the London knife crime epidemic.

‘Every morning you wake up there’s some 16-year-old being knifed to death and that,’ the 46 year old told BBC Breakfast.

‘I’ve got kids that age, out and about and that, doing their thing, living, being young,’ the father of four added. ‘That freaks me right out – it does worry me. I’ve got teenagers.’

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