Yousef Makki's family call for action after 16 serious stabbings rock Greater Manchester in 2023
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe sister of Yousef Makki has called on the authorities to act after a disturbing spike in serious stabbing incidents in Greater Manchester.
The M.E.N. has reported on 16 serious stabbing incidents since the turn of the year, the latest a 34-year-old man who was knifed inside a property in Ordsall, Salford, yesterday (Monday).
Others include a 14-year-old girl stabbed with a broken bottle in a school, a 62-year knifed in a supermarket car park and a 19-year-old who died after being stabbed outside a convenience store.
In most of the 16 serious stabbing incidents the M.E.N. has reported this year, detectives have stressed they were targeted attacks and that there was no wider threat to the public. READ MORE: Man, 26, arrested for 'attempted murder' after 34-year-old stabbed in Salford But, when we presented the scale of the problem to the sister of Yousef Makki, the talented Manchester Grammar School pupil stabbed to death aged 17 in Hale Barns on March 2, 2019, she called on the authorities, including Mayor Andy Burnham, 'to act now'.
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