dal babu, many thanks.me as a "scourge" and said he's given the police more powers and resources to help tackle the problem. it comes as a new study suggests that police could forecast where deadly knife attacks are likely to take place. the research in london found more than two—thirds of killings over the course of 12 months occurred in neighbourhoods where someone had been attacked with a knife the year before. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw reports. one of london's young victims of knife crime. saif abdul magid was 18 years old. he was attacked near this block of flats. police said it followed a simmering dispute in the area with other teenagers. two 14—year—old boys were later convicted of murder. saif abdul magid was stabbed to death here, at tanfield avenue in neasden, in october 2017. the previous year, there had been eight knife attacks in this neighbourhood in north west london. when researchers looked through crime records, they noticed a pattern right across london. criminologists ana

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