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Raise current penalty for carrying a knife illegally from 4 to 10 years.

Submitted on Sunday 24th March 2024

Rejected on Monday 8th April 2024

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Raise current penalty for carrying a knife illegally from 4 to 10 years.

Petition Details

Raise the penalty.

Additional Information

There should be a greater deterrent for individuals who consider carrying a knife in public to cause harm to others. Knife crime is taking too many lives. The best way for the government to prevent and protect the public is to raise the penalty for being caught carrying a knife from 4 years to 10 years.


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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:

Introduce mandatory minimum sentences for possession of a knife: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/654820

Increase the sentence to ten years minimum if you are caught carrying a knife: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/652306

Impose a five-year minimum sentence for carrying knives: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/658787

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