https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-53621817

Five people have been injured in separate shootings across London during one night.

Two men were shot in Brixton just before 19:00 BST on Friday, while another two people were shot during a silent party in Hackney during the early hours of Saturday morning.

A fifth person was injured in Croydon during a separate shooting.

Two men, aged 30 and 31, were arrested in connection with the incident in Hackney and remain in police custody.

The first shooting took place at 18:52 BST on Friday in Akerman Road, Brixton.

"Officers, including firearms officers, attended and found damage to two parked vehicles," the Met said.

"There was no trace of any victims. Police were called a short time later to a south London hospital after two males self-presented with gunshot injuries.

'We await an update on their condition."

The second shooting took place at 01:12 BST in Mandeville Street, Hackney.

Police were called to reports that a 30 and 31-year-old man had been taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.

"Both men are not believed to have sustained life-threatening injuries and they both remain in hospital," police said.

Two men, aged 30 and 31 were arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm.

A few minutes later, police were called to London Road in Croydon, following reports of a gunshot.

A man in his 20s, was found with a gunshot wound, the Met said.

He was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made.

'Loud music'
Elsewhere, an illegal rave involving more than 150 people was shut down by police in Archway, north London.

Residents reported a large police presence and disturbances in Tavistock Terrace in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A closure order was issued to a property in Tavistock Terrace, Archway following anti-social behaviour
Ch Supt Roy Smith, of the Met Police, tweeted: "Officers were out this evening closing down illegal and antisocial parties playing loud music into the early hours.

"Packed groups of 150+ people risking the spread of Covid-19 and keeping poor families with young children awake at 3am."

A closure order was also issued to one property in the street as officers dispersed the crowds.

A closure notice prohibits access to the premises for the period specified in the notice.

Guns are illegal in London. So it didn't happen. Criminals hold some laws as utterly sacred, and would rather chop off their own genitals than break those laws.

Gun control is starting to work for them the same as it has for us in Chicago...

Must be European dispute since guns are involved. Middle Easterners and Africans prefer copping up with swords and machetes. They are just getting even for years of oppression under British colonial rule, nothing to be concerned about.

Just means theyll pass more regulations against hunters and targetshooters.

Yeah, no guns in the Middle East OR Africa.

Chop chop. What’s for dinner?? Muzzies taste good I hear

......and Britain is an island. Most common encountered will be a 9x18 Makarov or 9x19 Chinese TT.

Actually it is the immigrants that do the chop, chop on the natives.

Mean while.... how many stabbings.... how many acid attacks ?

Only 5 shootings ?

Nailed it.

No deaths? They must have the same firearms instructors that they have in Chicago.

Knife crime soars to highest level on record in England and Wales, new ONS figures show

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/knife-crime-highest-level-england-wales-ons-a4501171.html

The number of knife crime in England and Wales has risen 6 per cent to the highest on record, official figures show.

Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument rose to 46,265 for the year to March, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Friday.

This was 51 per cent higher than when data of this kind was first collected in 2011, and is the highest number on record, the report said.


The number of offences varied across different regions as the data showed a 7 per cent increase in London but a 10 per cent drop in the number of offences in West Yorkshire.

UK's capital saw the highest rate with 179 offences per 100,000 population. This compared with an England and Wales average of 82 offences per 100,000 population.


“Knife or sharp instrument offences continue to be concentrated in metropolitan areas across England and Wales, with around a third (34 per cent) of all offences recorded by the police in London," said the report.

The number of killings involving a knife or sharp instrument also saw an increase of 2 per cent.

According to the ONS figures the rise in homicides was mainly driven by a 28 per cent rise in offences in London (67 to 86) while the rest of the country saw a 7 per cent decrease in the number of homicides involving a knife or sharp instrument.

Overall homicides rose by 10 per cent, but the report noted that the increase includes a single incident in which 39 migrants were found dead in a lorry in Kent.

If the major homicide in Kent is excluded from the data, homicides increased by just 3 per cent overall.

Police recorded 5.8 million crimes in England and Wales to March, the ONS said.

According to the latest statistics, assault with injury and assault with intent to cause serious harm offences, and robbery, each accounted for 44 per cent of all offences involving a knife or sharp instrument (20,333 and 20,159 respectively).


The ONS report added: “Offences involving knives or sharp instruments have been experiencing a rising trend since the year ending March 2014, although in recent years the rate of increase has slowed.”

The figures do not include Greater Manchester Police, who are unable to provide data due to ongoing problems with a new computer system.

Diana Fawcett, chief executive of the charity Victim Support, said: “It is concerning that, as the country began to enter lockdown, knife crime reached record levels.

“As a charity that supports people affected by knife crime, we know that it is devastating and life-changing for individuals, families and communities.

“Throughout lockdown the impact of knife crime will have continued to be felt, with many continuing to cope with the physical and emotional consequences of attacks during challenging times.”

Commenting on today’s crime figures, Sophie Sanders from ONS Centre for Crime and Justice said: “Overall crime rates were lower in the months leading up to the coronavirus pandemic, than they were in early 2019.

"However, it will not be possible to say whether this would have come to represent a change from the trend in recent years, as the pandemic will have had an impact on the level and types of crime since March.

“In contrast, prior to lockdown, we saw police recorded crime increase. This has been driven, largely, by a rise in high-volume offences including violence without injury, stalking and harassment, and fraud and computer misuse, which, apart from the latter, have been influenced by improvements in recording practices.

“There are also different patterns for specific crimes. For instance, theft from the person increased but burglary decreased.”

Separate figures released by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) on Friday show police recorded crime, excluding fraud, in England and Wales was down 14% in the four weeks to July 5, compared with the same period last year.

The provisional data shows most crime types rising back towards their pre-lockdown levels as restrictions have been eased, the NPCC said.

ONS will be publishing data on the first analysis of crime statistics affected by the coronavirus pandemic next month.

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And life back there in those garden spots was so much more pleasant for those folks. One wonders why they left to go to London just to be oppressed by colonial rule.

A real fuggin mystery that is. I hope that “they get even” and then they’ll feel so much better about themselves .

Anti-knife crime campaigners in Whitehall

Well,,,,that’ll put a stop to it for sure. How could anyone say no?

You pulled that right out of your ass. And you're wrong. Do some research.

The world looks like it's going down the Drain, some countries faster than others.....

How's that cultural enrichment goin' for ya?

I wonder how many guns there are in the Muzzhampton suburb of London?

No real changes, just different verses of the same song.

Probably far more than the Police or Government think.

This must be fake news. Zero told us this didn't happen in other countries.

On a scale never before seen in history.