Family calls for end to 'rampant' knife crime after man stabbed to death in elevator

Elevator stabbing victim’s family pleads for harsher laws

Killer Kloud Allen is facing up to 25 years behind bars after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the Victorian Supreme Court

Family calls for end to 'rampant' knife crime after man stabbed to death in elevator

Andrew Sullivan was in an elevator trying to get home when a group of young men turned on him.One of them pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed him as he tried to get away, his partner finding him bleeding profusely on the floor.The 42-year-old could not be saved and died in hospital from his injuries.READ MORE: Thousands jolted by 4.6-magnitude earthquake north of Sydney"I haven't gone near an elevator since that night," Sullivan's partner of …

'Children Can't Go To The Shop Without Fear Of Being Stabbed': Young People In Birmingham Drill Recording Studio On Reality Of Knife Crime - Great Yorkshire Radio

We are in a drill music recording studio in Birmingham. We have come here to talk frankly about why teenagers carry knives. This is a city with a history of gang violence going back decades. But in more recent years younger people have been drawn into the postcode wars. Battles are fought over drugs and territory. “A knife is one of the easiest things you can get,” Daniel, 27, says. “Every person has a knife in the house.” Data reveals a shockin…

Victim’s family calls for end to ‘rampant’ knife crime

Andrew Sullivan was in an elevator trying to get home when a group of young men turned on him. One of them pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed him as he tried to get away, his partner finding him bleeding profusely on the floor. The 42-year-old could not be saved and died in hospital from his injuries. “I haven’t gone near an elevator since that night,” Mr Sullivan’s partner of nine years, Desiree Schmidt, told a court on Wednesday. His devas…