'Nobody wins, everybody loses, it needs to be fixed': GMB weatherman Alex ...

GMB weather man Alex Beresford has spoken movingly of the need to address poverty and opportunity in London in the wake of his cousin's murder.

Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was killed in west London on Saturday March 9 - just 11 days after the Good Morning Britain presenter made an impassioned on-air interjection into a conversation about street violence. 

Alex Beresford said this morning: 'No one would have expected this after I spoke out, you couldn't make it up.

He said no one would have expected it of Nathaniel,  saying of his late cousin: 'He's 29, he's not in a gang, he went to a decent school, he went to university. He was a big guy, 6'6", 6'7". When you spoke to him you were literally looking up.' 

He said he was a 'big friendly giant'

Alex Beresford, GMB weather man, spoke of his cousin's murder this morning

Alex Beresford, GMB weather man, spoke of his cousin's murder this morning

Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was killed in west London on Saturday March 9 - just 11 days after the Good Morning Britain presenter spoke out about knife crime

Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was killed in west London on Saturday March 9 - just 11 days after the Good Morning Britain presenter spoke out about knife crime

'For this to happen to him people were really quite shocked, he wasn't really a fighter, he was someone who would talk his way out of things,' the weather man went on.

'It literally can happen to anybody. And that's why I was saying on this show, it's about the environment,

'And it's not just about one environment, it's about changing everything. If you think about poverty, we've not solved that, and this is why a lot of people are finding themselves in those situations where.. something just needs to be done.'

Piers Morgan suggested that gun crime crime and acid crime fell in the face of tougher sentencing and that knife violence should be met with longer prison terms.

But Alex said: 'There are some people who will be deterred by a bigger sentence, but lots of these boys who are carrying out these crimes, they don't care. 

He told the panel he did not think longer sentences were the answer to knife crime

He told the panel he did not think longer sentences were the answer to knife crime

'If you're prepared to pick up a knife and stab someone, and risk your own life, you are prepared to give up your life, and a bigger sentence is not a deterrent.'

He said the problem was centred around knife crime not gun crime because guns are so much harder to come by. 

He added: 'We need to think about the other side of it - this person who'd done this to my cousin, he's also ruined his life. The ripple effect goes wider. It affects his family as well. And that's why we have to fix this problem for both sides of it.

'Nobody wins, everybody loses.'

He said police currently could not find his cousin's killer, and until he is the family does not know a great deal, other than that, as CCTV shows, the pair were sen talking on CCTV and then later, out of shot, his cousin was

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