'We need to raise children better'

Their daughter, referred to as child A, lived despite being stabbed more than 30 times in the horror last July, their MP Paul Foster told a Commons debate on knife crime yesterday.
In a statement read out by the Labour member for South Ribble, the parents praised tougher laws but said work to tackle the problem needed to begin with educating children.
They added young people needed to be exposed to “counter messaging” to oppose what they were being exposed to online.
Radicalisation
The parents criticised the “terrifying” impact of toxic influencer Andrew Tate on teenage boys, and praised Netflix show Adolescence for covering the misogynistic radicalisation of some young people online.
The family said: “The work required is vast and complex. Long-term reduction in knife crime will only be seen if we go back to the start and raise our children better.”
In July last year, Axel Rudakubana, then 17, murdered Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, during the attack in the Merseyside town.
Rudakubana has been jailed for a minimum of 52 years for the murders, along with the attempted murders of eight other children who cannot be named for legal reasons class instructor Leanne Lucas and business-man John Hayes at the Taylor Swift-
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