Figures obtained from police through FOI requests by 5 News reveal that there were a total of 1,144 knife possession offences recorded in England, Scotland, and Wales over the past 12 months, where the suspect was a child.

Weapons seized by officers included hunting knives, machetes, and a samurai sword, with a police force in Wales called to one school where teachers were concerned that a four-year-old had a knife.

Former teacher David Simmons has revealed that he was threatened with a knife by a six-year-old in the school he was working at in north London.

Simmons explained that he attempted to calm the child down after telling other staff members he was going to stab them.

Details also revealed that an 11-year-old child in Manchester, who replaced the nib of a highlighter pen with a blade, told another pupil: 'Listen to me or else I’ll stab you.'

He’s then said he’s going to stab me and kill me. At that age you just wouldn’t have thought that a six-year-old should be doing that. Why were they doing that?

As a result of the ordeal, Simmons set up the charity ‘Changing Lives’, which gives opportunities to young people who are at risk of getting involved in gangs.

Responding to the FOI, a government spokesman claimed that their #knifefree campaign, which has caused widespread controversy for its alleged racist tropes surrounding fried chicken, is helping to challenge 'the myth that carrying a knife makes you safer.'

Editor's comment - We know that there is horrendous knife crime in London, Manchester and other big cities in the UK, but in Wales? One does have to ask - where are the parents in all this? Do they not check to see that little Hywel isn't taking a machete to school along with his crayons and colouring books? And don't get me started on the fried chicken campaign. So-called 'racist tropes' and other products of a fevered Leftie imagination have to take second place to any initiative for saving lives.