Race link to stabbings revealed by Yard

The confidential figures showed that 124 of the 225 under-18s legally "proceeded-against" for knife offences in the past three months are black.

However, 222 of the 345 young people attacked or threatened with a knife since 1 April in cases where ethnicity was logged were white. In the same sample, 61 were black.

The figures are the first comprehensive breakdown of knife crime and race in London.