Quote: post "Absolutely disgraceful, I'm sick of seeing young kids stabbed to death in this country.'"
You must be very unlucky, I've not seen a single one.
Quote: post "On seeing the blurred picture of the murderer in today's paper is it time to talk about the elephant in the room?'"
Which elephant would that be, then, and why do you call it that?
More to the point, what makes you think that you are the first person to see knife crime as a problem to be tackled? I do wish people like you would actually try to educate yourselves at least a little bit before pitching up with inflammatory innuendo. In fact, knife crime has for many years been extensively reported on, investigated, analysed etc. and the process is continuous. There are lots of people working on the issue and have been for years. The analysis isn't helped by your kind of bull.
Here, I'll even start you off
Oh, btw the knifeman been has sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Is that your elephant I just saw slinking away?