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Anyone caught and convicted of knife crime to serve a minimum sentence of 5years

Submitted on Monday 5th April 2021

Rejected on Monday 12th April 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Anyone caught and convicted of knife crime to serve a minimum sentence of 5years

Petition Details

Anyone caught in possession of a knife is to serve 3 years minimum sentence without out chance of early release and anyone convicted of knife crime to serve 5 years with out chance of early release.

Additional Information

People close to me have fallen victim to knife crime with out any repercussions for the offenders.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Increase sentences relating to knife crime: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563199

Minimum 10-year sentence for knife possession and 20 years for use of a knife: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/580709

Two year minimum sentencing for 1st time offenders caught with a knife 16 yrs +: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554242

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