Regis calls for crackdown on knives

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He said police must have the power to search "suspicious individuals" and added that if a weapon is found on them "the book should be thrown at them".

"I don't think the kids understand there is a consequence to bear for their actions. I don't think it's drilled into them enough to be told that you shouldn't be carrying knives.

"I don't think they truly understand that what they're doing affects more than just them and the person who is the innocent in this, it affects the friends, the families of both sides." he told ITV's London Tonight yesterday.

Adam, 15, was stabbed in an apparently motiveless attack in Plaistow, east London, at around 9.30pm on March 17.

The teenager, from Plaistow, was speaking to his girlfriend on his hands-free phone when he was attacked.

Mr Regis said his nephew was not in a gang and "was just a nice kid going to school, enjoying himself".

"There wasn't a bad word said about him by anybody, that's why it just defies logic how this could happen to a kid, wrong place wrong time, you know - I don't know, but it's devastating, absolutely devastating," he said.