Labour urge crackdown on knives

Aug 30 2009

Labour have made a fresh plea for anyone caught carrying a knife to be jailed after figures showed that almost half of all killings in Scotland involved a sharp weapon.

There were a total of 114 homicide cases in Scotland in 2007-08.

And figures from Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill showed that 55 of these involved a sharp instrument - making this the most common method in killings.