'It used to be men in their 20s - now children in school uniforms arrive with stab wounds', says top London surgeon 

A white police tent covers the body of yet another victim of knife crime in the capita, this time in Morning Lane, Hackney
A white police tent covers the body of yet another victim of knife crime in the capital, this time in Morning Lane, Hackney

In the space of a decade London hospitals have gone from treating men in their twenties for knife and gun wounds to children still in their “school uniforms”, one of the capital’s leading trauma surgeons has said.

Martin Griffiths, the lead surgeon for Barts NHS Health Trust, has warned that London’s spiralling murder rate has resulted in a “sea change” in medical practice, with medics now performing life-saving surgery on teenagers on a daily basis.

It comes after two more victims were stabbed to death in London last night, a man thought to be in his 20s and one in his 50s, taking the total number of people murdered in the capital in the first three months of the year to 50.

On Tuesday, 16-year-old...

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