Shopkeeper hands in 400 knives to prevent teenage stabbings

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Nadeem Nasir decided not to sell his stock of about 400 knives for fear of them getting into the wrong hands, so he approached police community support officers near his discount store, Bits And Bobs, and asked if they could dispose of them.

The married father-of-four said he made his decision after a boy who attended his daughter's school was stabbed. Fifteen-year-old Adam Regis was also knifed to death last March only minutes from the shop.

He said: "We wanted to stop selling knives but we had all this stock. We didn't want to put them in the bin or skip. I didn't want them to get into the hands of children. What's important to me is not the money but to save a life. I want to stop these murders."

Mr Nasir backed the Standard's Beat Knife Crime campaign. This year, 16 teenagers have been murdered in London, 11 of them stabbed to death.

A Met spokeswoman said it was not a criminal offence to sell lock knives and the move was "unprecedented". She added: "The entire stock of lock knives was taken away by police officers and will be safely disposed of."