NSW: Number of young people carrying knives on the increase

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2006
NSW: Number of young people carrying knives on the increase

Senior police are concerned about the number of young people carrying knives .. after
a brazen stabbing attack in a Sydney shopping centre.

A 14-year-old boy from Sefton .. in Sydney's west .. has been charged over the stabbing
of a 13-year-old Bonnyrigg boy in the Parramatta Westfield Shopping Centre about 7 o'clock
(AEST) last night.

Police say an argument broke out between the pair .. and the Sefton boy allegedly knifed
the younger boy in the face .. elbow and forehead .. before police who were on patrol
intervened.

Superintendent GEOFF BERESFORD has told Macquarie Radio there's a frightening and worrying
trend of young people carrying knives.

The Sefton teenager's been charged with malicious wounding and possession of a prohibited weapon.

He's been granted conditional bail to appear in Lidcombe Children's Court on September 6.

AAP RTV kjd/hn/cp/bart

KEYWORD: STABBING (SYDNEY)

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