More than 55% of knife and gun crime attacks in the last year were concentrated in inner city areas of London, Birmingham and Manchester, according to Home Office statistics published yesterday.
STATISTICS -knife or other sharp instrument, such as a broken bottle - 22,151 attacks in the last year.
-close to one in five of all violent attacks.
The annual murder rate was 784 people killed, up from 759 the previous year but below the 1,047 recorded six years ago.
But these figures are not broken down by type of death, so cannot used to determine whether fatal stabbings have played a greater or lesser role than usual. In past years they have accounted for about one third of all murders.
The 22,151 serious violent offences in which a knife was involved was the first time that such figures were collected and so it is not possible to determine a national trend. This figure excludes the number of offenders found in possession of a knife.
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