Ronan Kanda’s mother welcomes knife amnesty scheme as 14,500 weapons surrendered

• Pooja Kanda, whose son Ronan was murdered in 2022, has welcomed new government figures on weapons surrendered in amnesty bins across the country.
• Ronan Kanda, 16, was killed in a mistaken-identity knife attack, prompting his mother to campaign for Ronan's Law, which includes a ban on ninja swords.
• More than 14,500 weapons, including zombie-style knives and machetes, have been handed into government-backed amnesty bins since July last year, according to the Home Office.
• Policing Minister Sarah Jones said: “Knife crime is down by 11% since the general election but we will not stop until we meet our commitment of halving knife crime in a decade.”
• The scheme, which operates on a “no questions asked” basis, has expanded from 37 to 45 bins, with additional weapons collected via a mobile surrender van run by the organisation Fazamnesty.

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My 16-year-old son was murdered with a ninja sword. He paid the price because someone chose to carry a knife