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Radio York,3 mins
North Yorkshire knife crime up 7% over three years
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Steve Jordan looks at the work being done by Selby's frontline police officers to tackle knife crime. Research by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio York has revealed that knife crime in our area has gone up by 7% over three years. Despite this, the knife crime rate in North Yorkshire remains below the national average. This comes as a teenager from Harrogate has been jailed for life after he murdered his friend by stabbing him at a house party earlier this year. Seb Mitchell died on 21 February, two days after he was stabbed through the heart with a kitchen knife during an argument. Seb died a week before his 18th birthday. (Photo by John Phillips/UK Press via Getty Images)
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