Judge calls for 10in pointed kitchen knives to be ground down to a rounded end after hearing three serious stabbing cases in last three months
Ideas come from Judge Nic Madge, who jailed Jordon Worth, 22, for inflicting a catalogue of injuries on her boyfriend including stabbing him
Judge Madge said was was the points of ordinary kitchen knives that was causing the soaring loss of life among youngsters
Says members of the public could take their kitchen knives to be 'modified' and the points ground down into rounded ends
By Laura Forsyth For Mailonline
Published: 08:59 EDT, 27 May 2018 | Updated: 08:59 EDT, 27 May 2018
A judge has called for a drastic rethink on the way we use knives in kitchens in a bid to reduce the number of young men dying on our streets because of knife crime.
And he has come up with an idea for a scheme that could be rolled out across the UK where members of the public could take their kitchen knives to be 'modified' and the points ground down into rounded ends.
This comes from Judge Nic Madge, who last month jailed Jordon Worth, of Stewartby, Bedfordshire, for seven-and-a-half years after she inflicted a catalogue of injuries on her boyfriend Alex Skeel.
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