Hundreds of thugs caught carrying a knife at least twice are spared jail despite 'two strikes' crackdown that supposedly makes a six-month sentence mandatory amid skyrocketing stabbings in London

Among over 4,000 thugs caught carrying a knife for at least a second time, 38 per cent walked away from court without a prison term in the year up to September 2023.

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