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12 month minimum sentence and 6 month rehabilitation course for knife carrying

Submitted by Mrs Bernice Barfield on Saturday 4th January 2025

Published on Monday 28th April 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Tuesday 28th October 2025

Signatures: 56

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2023 ~ Awareness ~ awareness course ~ Broad ~ Crime ~ Daylight ~ Harley ~ Haverhill ~ Knife ~ Lost ~ Mandatory ~ Minimum ~ month ~ Ordinary ~ part ~ Rehabilitation ~ sentence ~ Suffolk

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12 month minimum sentence and 6 month rehabilitation course for knife carrying

Petition Details

This could act as a deterrent and contribute to the reduction of knife-related crimes.

Introduce 12 month mandatory minimum sentence, including for 1st time offenders. Implement a mandatory 6-month knife awareness course for rehabilitation as part of the sentencing process.

Additional Information

My son Harley Barfield, a vibrant 16-year-old boy, was stabbed 12 times in an attack in Haverhill Suffolk on 9th January 2023. He lost his fight for life on 11th January 2023.

It was an ordinary day, just after school let out, and he was attacked in broad daylight.


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