Almost 10,000 people have been hospitalised with stab wounds in London in just nine years it has emerged- days after another victim died.
NHS Digital Data shows there were around 9,255 admissions of patients from the Met Police area between April 2012 and March this year.
These admissions involve 53 per cent of people aged under 25 and a total of 940 people admitted to hospital after attacks in 2020-2021.
London police recorded 10,362 serious knife crimes from June 2020 to June 2021.
Across England and Wales, separate Home Office crime figures show 47,000 serious knife crimes happened in the year to June.
The data has emerged after another fatal stabbing in the capital on Friday night which saw Ali Abucar Ali , 20, (pictured) killed as he tried to help Betty Walsh, an elderly woman who was set upon
Patrick Green, CEO of the Ben Kinsella Trust, set up in memory of a young stabbing victim, said the statistics were shocking.
He said: 'These figures show that knife crime remains a significant problem for the criminal justice system and the NHS.
'But more worryingly, they show that we are failing to protect young people.
'We need to do far more to educate young people about the dangers of knife crime.'
Pictured: Ben Kinsella, who was fatally stabbed at the age of 16 in Islington, while celebrating the end of his GCSES. The Ben Kinsella Trust was set up in his name to provide anti-knife crime education
The data has emerged after another fatal stabbing in the capital on Friday night which saw Ali Abucar Ali, 20, killed as he tried to help an elderly woman who was set upon.
Mr Abucar Ali was fatally stabbed after he came to the aid of Betty Walsh, a retired barmaid, who was knifed as she went to pick up her dinner at Best Kebab and Fish Bar on Albany Parade in Brentford, West London.
He was hailed a hero for trying to help Ms Walsh before he was killed by a knife and was described as a hardworking man who had recently
