Student killed in street stabbing

[Virgin Mary]

I go to London a lot and I've been in Peckham in South London and walked around at night and it's not that bad. People forget this stuff happens in suburban areas. I've lived in the so-called guncrime capital of the UK all my life and I've never been shot. People just overreact to crime without looking at it in context.

[N-Dubz]

I go to London a lot and I've been in Peckham in South London and walked around at night and it's not that bad. People forget this stuff happens in suburban areas. I've lived in the so-called guncrime capital of the UK all my life and I've never been shot. People just overreact to crime without looking at it in context.

I agree, I live in Lewisham one of the bad area's of the UK whilst taking bus rides through Peckham in my school uniform. There is a tackle between postcodes and borough's though that should be stopped, and it do's cause most knife crime.
Most people overlook the stabbing's outside London, they love to put all the blame onto us and make the capital look disgusting. There is no pressure to carry a knife unless your in a gang, or just terrified of the outside world you live in.

[cocaine]

if i lived in London i would carry a knife for sure.

Thats such a shame though, its always young people with lives to live.

i live in london and i dont feel the need to carry a knife :S just use your common sense.. what do you think going up in an argument against a gang of teens will get you? or walking through dark streets at night with bright white headphones in? use common sense and keep your wits about you and you wont get mugged or stabbed..

It always happens in London because most areas there are scum.

spot on.

[Nemo]

I go to London a lot and I've been in Peckham in South London and walked around at night and it's not that bad. People forget this stuff happens in suburban areas. I've lived in the so-called guncrime capital of the UK all my life and I've never been shot. People just overreact to crime without looking at it in context.

That is actually kinda true. I live in croydon (has the highest teenage pregnany rate in europe, and has a lot 'stabbings' and youthy crime n stuff) but ive never been robbed, even though my friends have, it doesnt happen to everyone. Although those bad people are like everywhere, but if you dont get involved with them, they dont do anythin to do except rob you. Nothing to do with killing.

[N-Dubz]

Yeah, it can happen to anyone.
London is popular, its the capital so obviously they'll be more knife crime.
Things happen where I live, it dosn't bother me as long as it don't happen to me. Once my sister was on a bus and 3 black girls came on hitting her and punching her but no one on the bus did anything. It's just if your lucky or not. I do admit London crime, is pathetic nowdays if you look at someone in the wrong way you can get in a fight. An people who live in Lewisham, Peckham, New Cross, Greenwich and Croydon would know that.

[Nemo]

Yeah, it can happen to anyone.
London is popular, its the capital so obviously they'll be more knife crime.
Things happen where I live, it dosn't bother me as long as it don't happen to me. Once my sister was on a bus and 3 black girls came on hitting her and punching her but no one on the bus did anything. It's just if your lucky or not. I do admit London crime, is pathetic nowdays if you look at someone in the wrong way you can get in a fight. An people who live in Lewisham, Peckham, New Cross, Greenwich and Croydon would know that.

Yeah it is true, but sometimes they pick fights. Even at school.

They push in the line. Me "what you doin, i was there" *push them out* then they get pissed off and it just becomes something stupid.

[N-Dubz]

Yeah agree'd, but its things like that, that need to be stopped.
Alot of my friends have fights in school then carry them on after school where like everyone watch's - thats when it get's violent.

[Virgin Mary]

Most of the time these things happen where you'd expect them to: outside pubs, down alleyways, on streets at night. Rarely is it on Oxford Street in the middle of the day. And, as said, people complain about it but when they see it happening they don't do anything. Phoning the police is obviously too strenuous a task, it's far easier to moan about it to a newspaper.

[N-Dubz]

Of course they wouldn't do anything, its to risky nowday's so sitting there complaining is the only way out.
Its school crime, that most South East London school's are rough and so are plenty of the other side, causing there to be alot of knife crime in and outside of school.
Some people are stupid though as said by Cocaine, you wouldn't walk down a dark alley or outside a pub at night with white ipod headphones sticking out your ears and your top nosh phone out texting someone..
Some case's its common sense. People exagerate London, think they have it all worked out - but you dont know London till you've lived there or at least been there more then once.