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Carrying knives in public places should carry mandatory custodial sentence .

Submitted on Sunday 21st August 2022

Rejected on Thursday 25th August 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Carrying knives in public places should carry mandatory custodial sentence .

Petition Details

Debate in Parliament and bring in new legislation.

Additional Information

To stop the amount of knife crime murders and discourage youths in gangs carrying knives.


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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 penalties for knife crime offences: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/618505

Increase mandatory minimum sentences for carrying a knife, with no parole: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/622234

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