Part THREE: The unexpected reason behind London’s knife crime bloodbath – and how it’s turned murder into a moneymaking industry, writes Harriet Sergeant

A three-part special investigation by Harriet Sergeant who’s talked to gang members, grieving parents and horrified hospital staff

In August, 2019, residents of Munster Square, a stone’s throw from London‘s Regent’s Park, were disturbed by desperate banging on their front doors in the dead of night. Alex Smith, a 16-year-old boy with a shock of brown hair, was running from house to house, pleading: ‘Help me, help me!’

There followed pounding footsteps, screams, laughter and, finally, silence. When a terrified resident plucked up the courage to go outside, they found the teenager dying in a pool of blood on their doorstep.

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The Daily Mail
Published 29 April 2024