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Cut-price weapons branded with superhero logos are being sold as a teenage knife crisis grips Britain.

A website linked to one murder offers Spider-Man blades and a Legend of Zelda sword.

It urges shoppers to “buy as much as you can” to beat new laws – and posted one offer just after Jodie Chesney, 17, died.

The website is under fire for running “order now” offers to beat new laws on knife sales.

Shoppers lured with loyalty bonuses and knock-down prices are told: “Order as much as you like now, while we can deliver to you at home.”

That is a direct reference to new laws aimed at halting sales to residential addresses as the Home Office bids to curb knife crime.

At least 39 people have been killed in stabbings so far this year.

Shockingly, the site launched a “special offer” within hours of two 17-year-olds being stabbed to death a fortnight ago – Jodie Chesney in Romford, East London, and Yousef Makki in Hale Barns, Cheshire.

As right-minded Britons were left reeling, Facebook users spotted an advert for an “award-winning knife”.

It said: “$44.99 in the USA without taxes and shipping (if Border Force don’t steal it from you). We have them on special offer. Just £24.99 whilst stocks last.”

A former Met Police chief branded the site “nauseating” and called for it to be shut down amid fears teenagers can easily get past age restrictions.

The site – which the Sunday Mirror is not naming for fear of encouraging rogue purchases – is also accused of glamorising weapons by selling knives branded with logos from Captain America, Batman, Lord of the Rings and The Expendables.

It also stocks axes, crossbows and swords.

A 22inch machete is for sale at £24.99, a spring-loaded Godfather stiletto knife for £19.99, Rambo knives for as little as £19.99 and even a “Hitler Youth” knife, emblazoned with a swastika, that costs £44.99.

Red “Sale” banners litter the site and there is a special offers section which could appeal to a youth audience.

The Captain America knife is half price at £7.49, The Expendables double shadow knife is £39.99, down £10, and a 15ins Rambo classic knife is £19.99 – £5 off.

Police in Cambridge criticised the site last month after Ashraf Hussan, 20, was jailed for life for murdering Peter Anderson, 46.

Drug dealer Hussan is thought to have used a knife bought from the site.

Det Ch Insp Alan Page was “aghast” at how easy it was to buy dangerous weapons from the site, which is owned by Joseph Wheeler.

Knife crime expert Peter Kirkham, a former Chief Inspector with the Met Police, accused the site of flooding the streets with products that appeal to a youth market.

Calling it nauseating and urging a shutdown, he said: “This website is making money out of the carnage that we’re seeing on our streets with the knife crime epidemic.

“It is abhorrent that somebody could even think about doing that. He needs to be closed down, if at all possible.

“You can’t do age verification effectively on an e-commerce website. There is no effective control for age on internet purchases.

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"Adults could buy in bulk from this website and sell the knives on. What he is doing isn’t a criminal offence – but he is actually conspiring to further the knife crime epidemic.”

Our investigation comes as the age of children carrying knives reaches new lows.

Police in Fleetwood, Lancs, last week seized blades from children as young as 11 who were heading for pre-arranged fights with other schoolchildren.

The Government’s new Offensive Weapons Bill includes a ban on the delivery of knives bought online to residential addresses.

Yet on his website – which has 20,000 users – Wheeler writes: “There does appear to be a way we can still deliver – collection only from local post offices.

“For now we are trading as normal.

“Business as usual, so please do not stop ordering, in fact if anything order as much as you like now, while we can deliver to you at home.

"If the laws are suddenly passed way ahead of schedule, we will either deliver to a collection point, where ID will be needed, or we can refund your order.”

Wheeler ran a petition – which closed last December and was signed by 24,015 people – opposing tighter regulations.

The Government responded: “The Bill prevents knives which cause serious harm from being delivered to residential addresses.

“Retailers online and offline are prohibited from selling knives to under 18s. Evidence shows that the majority of sampled online retailers failed to have effective age verification procedures in place.”

The website, which also sells axes, crossbows and swords, has age checks which involve buyers uploading an ID to create an account.

But the site encourages customers to “block out any information you do not wish us to see. We are only interested in your name and date of birth to confirm you are over 18.”

That means photographs can be blacked out.

Other knives, banned in the UK, are still available to order online from overseas.

A law making it illegal to sell, manufacture or import Zombie knives – weapons with a serrated edge, inspired by horror films – was introduced in 2016.

Yet it took the Sunday Mirror just three minutes to find one from a US website delivering to the UK within nine days – and with no age checks required.

Wheeler admits on his site that “a tiny percentage of online customers buy knives with bad intentions”.

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He told the Sunday Mirror: “All products we sell are legal and we abide by all laws.

“Knives are used for thousands of legitimate purposes by law-abiding citizens. Knives are essential tools used day in day out for work and recreation.

“Age verification checks is our number one priority. All products we sell are legal and we abide by all laws.

“We are preparing for a home delivery ban on knives which will mean customers will have to go in person to collection points with their identification.”

ASDA says it will remove single kitchen knives from sale by the end of April in response to concerns about knife crime.

Close it down says mum of victim, 13

The mother of a teenager threatened by a 12-year-old carrying a Spider-Man knife called for the weapons website to be shut down.

She said: “It’s an absolute disgrace that kids can log on and lust after designer knives. The boy who threatened my lad apparently ‘borrowed’ the knife from his dad who told the police it was for fishing.

“Knives like these are obviously attractive to kids. It’s totally irresponsible, especially in this climate.”

Her 13-year-old son was playing in a park in a leafy Cotswold village when he got into a row with the younger boy, who pulled out the knife and chased him around a band stand.

The 42-year-old mum said: “At one point he was pushing my son with both his hands while holding the knife. It was a really wet day and had he slipped it could have gone straight into my son’s heart.”

The 12-year-old was given a warning and made to write a letter of apology to his victim after the incident last October.