Charity boss urges people to hand over deadly knives
Ben Kinsella Trust CEO Patrick Green urges people to hand in zombie-style knives and machetes to police stations, ahead of a national ban, saying “they have no place in our society”. From September 24, the weapons will be added to a prohibited list of dangerous items, which also includes butterfly knives, samurai swords and push daggers. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00This is really, really important legislation that's coming through and something that
00:04we've all fought for for some time. Machetes and zombie knives are being used in some of the most
00:11serious attacks that we see on our streets. They have no place in our society. This ban
00:16is long overdue and really, really important. To anyone who has a zombie knife, I would be saying,
00:22or a machete, it's time to surrender them. There is a compensation scheme in place for
00:28people to get some monetary return for the value they've spent on these items.
00:33But very shortly, these items will become illegal. So it's important that we all comply
00:39with the law. These knives and zombie knives have no place in our society. They need to be
00:47taken off our streets and I would urge anybody who has one to surrender it to a police station.