A ban on ninja swords campaigned for by the family of a murdered teenager is set to come into force by summer. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the law which will make it illegal to possess, sell, make or import the weapon from August 1 as the final part of anti-knife crime measures introduced under Ronan’s Law, named after Ronan Kanda. Report by Faragt. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00These are dangerous weapons that need to be off our streets.
00:04That's why we're bringing in the ban on ninja swords,
00:07the kind that was used to kill Ronan Cander,
00:10part of Ronan's Law, but much more widely.
00:13We've got to get these knives off the street,
00:16part of our mission to halve knife crime over the next ten years.
00:20We're determined to have much stronger action
00:22to get these dangerous weapons off the streets,
00:25including the ban on ninja swords,
00:27but also the zombie weapons that we banned last summer,
00:31and also have much stronger checks and penalties
00:35on illegal online knife sales as well alongside.
00:39The stronger prevention we need with young people
00:42and the stronger penalties too.
00:44We need to stop these dangerous weapons getting into the hands of teenagers.
00:48We know in the case of Ronan Cander,
00:51he was killed by teenagers who had managed to buy
00:54more than 20 weapons online,
00:57dangerous weapons that frankly should have been illegal
01:00and we have since now banned.
01:02We are banning those weapons, but also he should not have been able
01:06to buy those sorts of things online without proper checks in place.
01:11So we have to take that action.
01:13I believe it can make a difference to preventing
01:16some of those dangerous weapons on the street,
01:18but it has to be part of much stronger action,
01:21a comprehensive mission involving everyone to keep our children safe.