Britain’s violent shame: Horror week sees killing a day and 31 stabbings on UK streets

SUNDAY

At 1.15am on Sunday, a teenager was left fighting for his life in Glasgow after a man jumped out of a taxi and stabbed him.

At 3am, a man, 29, was stabbed multiple times during a random attack by three teenage boys in Crewe, Cheshire.

Three boys, two of 14 and one of 16, were arrested. Back in Scotland, at 6pm, police cordoned off the Burnbank Centre, Hamilton, after a man was stabbed.

Detectives in London, already investigating a series of stabbings and shootings, responded at 9.40pm to reports of gunshots fired on the Tulse Hill Estate in south London. A 17-year-old male was found in a critical condition with gunshot wounds near the Jubilee Hall Community Centre.

MONDAY

Just half an hour into the first working day, there was a fatal stabbing.

Paramedics alerted police at 12.40am to an unresponsive man with multiple stab wounds found in Stratford, east London.

Giedrius Juskauskas, 42, a Lithuanian, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Later than morning, at 5.11am, police found the body of Safie Xheta, 35, with knife wounds to the neck.

At 11.38am armed police swamped Leyton, east London, following a shooting, where a man was found with non-life threatening gunshot wounds . That afternoon, police found the body of disabled mother-of-two Valerie Richardson, whose throat was slashed, at her flat in Fife, Scotland.

The body of Ross Thom, 39, was nearby. His death is unexplained, but detectives believe he murdered then killed himself.

Police in Edinburgh found Alistair Edmond, 37, with serious stab wounds at around 4pm. He later died in hospital.

Gary Walker, 52, from Edinburgh, was later charged with murder.

On the same day,Waltham Forest Council released a study that backed a nationwide "public health" approach to violence.

TUESDAY

A man in his 30s was found in Crieff Square, Sunderland, at 12.30am in a serious but stable condition.

Detectives believe he was hit by a car on purpose after an incident involving a gang.

At 2.20am, a 15-year-old boy was left fighting for his life after being stabbed 20 times in Luton.

The same day, Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced a £35million boost to 18 police forces for violence reduction units.

At 2pm, an 18-year-old man was stabbed in the back inAshton-under-Lyne.Two men were stabbed in a fight at Kensal Green, north London, at 3.30pm.

Cabbie John MacMillan, 70, was discovered with chest and throat injuries at a house in Barrow, Cumbria, at about 6.40pm, before he was declared dead.

At 10.50pm, police found three men with stab wounds in Barnet, north London. One of them, David Bello-Monerville, 38, was later pronounced dead. His brother Joseph, 19, was shot in the head as he sat in a car in 2013, while brother Trevor, 26, was stabbed to death by a gang in 1994.

At 11.45pm, a tent was set ablaze in Wanstead, east London.Two men, believed to be in their 40s, were inside. One died, the other was badly hurt.Two men have been charged with murder, attempted murder and arson.

WEDNESDAY

The day had barely started when, at 12.20am, a man in his 30s was found lying stabbed in Loughborough, Leicestershire.

At 8.15am, a man in his late teens suffered head injuries and was stabbed during a robbery in King Street, Telford. A man in his 30s was later arrested.

At 12.35pm, a man was stabbed in the neck at Warner Brothers Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, where a new adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches, starring Anne Hathaway, is being produced. A man was arrested.

Just over three hours later, a boy, 14, was knifed in broad daylight after school in Lewisham, south London.

At 8.50pm, police were called to Leeds city centre to reports of a knife fight where a 21-year-old man was found with stab injuries.

He was arrested as were two other men.

At 10pm in Bootle, Merseyside, a man got off a motorbike and fired a gun towards a group of youths.

No one was hit during the shooting.

Fifteen minutes later, police in Barnsley, received a call to say that a 69-year-old man had suffered a gunshot wound to his arm.

Back at King Street, Telford, at 11.50pm, but in an apparently unrelated incident, a man in his 40s and a woman in her 20s were taken to hospital with suspected stab wounds following an attack at a property.

THURSDAY

A 14-year-old boy suffered serious injuries after being stabbed in Chester at 3pm.A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder.

In Oxford, an hour and a half later, a 23-year-old was stabbed in the stomach, while a man in his 20s was stabbed inWalsall.

The panel of BBC show Question Time, held in Tottenham, north London, that evening were left dumbstruck when a grandmother of 14 in the audience, right, shouted at them that they had done nothing to stop youths on the streets stabbing each other while they argued over Brexit.

As the episode was screened, police were investigating a stabbing outside a Leicester pub where, at around 10pm, a 21-year-old was stabbed in the back.

Then, at 10.50pm, police cordoned off five houses and arrested a man, 32, after gun shots were fired in Rochdale.

A man was pronounced dead at a property in Middlesbrough after being found injured at 11.15pm. Jessica Breeze, 19, was later charged with his murder.

FRIDAY

A man, 24, was stabbed in the face and chest during an attack in the centre of Edinburgh at 3am.

At the same time, in Bootle, a house and car were set on fire in an arson police believe may be linked to Wednesday's gun shots.

Then, three men were injured in suspected acid attacks within hours of each other in east London.

Two other men, aged in their 20s, were also injured in a second incident in Hackney Downs shortly before 7.30pm.

A murder inquiry was launched after a man was stabbed to death in Bristol at 5.50pm.

At 11.08pm, police responded to reports of a fatal shooting in Feltham, west London.

Just two minutes after the shooting, a 17-year-old boy was stabbed in Islington, north London.

Later a 44-year-old man died in hospital after being stabbed in the Northamptonshire village of Little Harrowden.

Four men have been arrested.

A Home Office spokesman said: "This week we allocated £35million to police forces for violence reduction units.

"We have made it easier for police in affected areas to use stop and search powers.

"But there is still more to do and that is why we are investing more than £220million in projects to turn young people away from a life of crime."