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Extra cash to tackle county’s knife crime

KNIFE CRIME LAUNCH: Lily Golden, who designed the poster, Jeanette Singleton (mother of Lewis Singleton) and Chief Inspector Andy Bottomley.

11:05am Thursday 12th March 2009

EXTRA cash is set to be ploughed into Hampshire in a bid to rid its streets of knife crime.

Fresh-faced trio in knifepoint robbery

Jonathan Gilham, James Carlton and Jamie Summerton

10:20am Monday 8th December 2008

THEY are the baby-faced thugs who subjected a 15-year-old boy to a terrifying knifepoint robbery.

Teens live in climate of fear

12:50pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008

Gangs, knives, bullies and teenagers . . . research commissioned by police and thought to be first in country, will make eye-opening reading for parents

Cameron backs knife campaign

12:04pm Friday 25th April 2008

TORY leader David Cameron has backed the Daily Echo's knife campaign by calling for tougher penalties in relation to violent crime.

Man stabbed in back in vicious ambush

12:09pm Tuesday 18th March 2008

Fresh warning from police about people carrying blades

'Never carry a knife'

CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: Poster designer Lily Golden; Jeanette Singleton, Lewis' mum; and Chief Insp Andy Bottomley.

9:00am Wednesday 12th March 2008

Heartbroken mum’s poignant message

Most knife carriers are spared jail

7:00am Thursday 21st February 2008

FOUR out of every five people convicted of carrying a knife in Hampshire are getting off without a jail sentence, new figures have revealed.

Huge increase in convictions for carrying knives

Knife victim Lewis Singleton

12:01pm Monday 18th February 2008

THE number of people convicted of carrying a knife in Hampshire has soared by 65 per cent over the past decade.

Sailor’s death still a mystery

2:59pm Friday 4th January 2008

THE death of Indian sailor Gregory Fernandes remains unsolved two months after he was apparently the victim of a race-hate gang attack.

Footballer is cleared of rape

3:01pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

A FOOTBALLER arrested for rape as he prepared to play for his Hampshire club has been cleared of attacking a woman in a pub garden.


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