‘It’s hard to let go of revenge’: Meet the man stabbed 18 times who is taking knives off London’s streets
Knife crime campaigner Faron Paul is showing a group of teenagers a huge scar on his neck, at the scene where 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin was killed with a sword as he left his house in east London this week.
“So what do you do if someone approaches you with a knife?” Mr Paul asks the young group after showing them his injury. One of them replies without hesitation: "I’m cutting, I’m out of there”.
The victim-turned-activist agrees, as he offers every teenager he runs into in Hainault the same advice: “Don’t let your pride let you die. Run and f***ing live to fight another day, yeah?”
Mr Paul knows what he is talking about – he says he has been stabbed 18 times in two separate attacks. Now he runs FazAmnesty, taking unwanted knives, axes, guns and swords off young people and delivering them to police with no questions asked.
