'Horrific' weapons including baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire handed in to anti-knife campaign
A Shropshire-led anti-knife crime initiative has been handed several horrific weapons confiscated by police elsewhere in the UK.
Organisers of the 'Save a Life - Surrender Your Knife' campaign, and Knife Angel tour of the UK, say they are horrified by the latest delivery from Derbyshire Police.
The force recently dropped off a number of weapons it has confiscated or handed in via weapon surrender bins made at the British Ironwork Centre, Oswestry.
They included weapons more at home on the set of The Walking Dead - like a baseball bat wrapped with barbed wire and an enormous double-bladed knife.
Clive Knowles from the British Ironwork Centre said they were some of the worst weapons he had seen since since the anti-knife crime campaign began.
"They are absolutely dreadful, horrific," he said.
"We are looking at weapons here that would maim and kill."
Surrender bins continue to go out to towns and cities across the country to try to reduce the number of knives and weapons on the streets.
Meanwhile the Knife Angel sculpture, created at the Ironwork Centre by artist Alfie Bradley, is in place at Gloucester Cathedral with a farewell vigil to take place on Sunday evening.
The Knife Angel was created in recognition of knife crime and completed in 2018. Since then it has toured parts of the UK to spread the anti-knife crime message.
The 27-foot-high sculpture, made from over 100,000 seized blades is on display at Gloucester Cathedral until Monday as part of its National Anti-Violence Tour.
A month-long anti-violence campaign has run alongside its visit.
