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Alexander Rose, 20, a friend of Eugene Attram, 16, who was stabbed to death in Mitcham in 2006, has designed the pendants. They bear the inscription "This used to be a knife".

Graphic-design student Mr Rose said: "I grew up surrounded by people getting bottled and beaten up.

"Then I started hearing of people getting stabbed, and then people I knew were getting murdered.

"I'm trying to get the right message out to the community and show people there is a way out of knife crime."

A batch of 729 knives seized or handed into South Wales Police were used to create the pendants, which also bear the words "education" and "symbol of hope".

Mr Rose said: "Those weapons aren't going back on the streets."

The pendants will be distributed free at a knife-crime awareness event at the Ministry of Sound nightclub next Wednesday.