Kyle Davis, 18, pictured yesterday outside Birmingham magistrates' court, was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday despite being caught with cocaine and a knife
A suspected drug dealer with a history of carrying a blade dodged jail yesterday.
Kyle Davis, 18, was given a suspended sentence despite being caught with cocaine and a knife – his second weapons offence.
The case, which comes amid mounting fury at the number of teenage stab victims, will fuel concerns about soft justice for knife offenders.
Davis laughed as he swaggered out of Birmingham magistrates’ court, taking a selfie on his phone to record his glee at escaping prison.
Only a few miles away three teenagers had lost their lives in 12 days of carnage that police leaders described as a ‘national emergency’.
In London, two boys aged 15 – one caught with a hooked knife and the other with two hidden blades – were let off with youth rehabilitation orders yesterday.
As campaigners condemned the lenient sentences and politicians and police chiefs squabbled over how to deal with the crisis:
- Home Secretary Sajid Javid demanded more money for police and wider use of stop-and-search powers during a charged Cabinet meeting;
- Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick rejected Theresa May’s claim that there was no link between officer numbers and crime levels;
- The family of girl scout Jodie Chesney, 17, who was murdered in east London, called for tougher sentences;
- The Lebanese aunt of public schoolboy Yousef Makki, 17, who was killed in a leafy Cheshire village, told of her disbelief at his death;
- Boris Johnson said thugs carrying ‘killer’ knives must understand they risked time in jail;
- Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson offered the support of the military to help police tackle knife crime.
Today, Mr Johnson savages Theresa May’s record as home secretary in an article for the Daily Mail, saying her reforms on stop and search ‘turned out to be a very grave mistake’. The former Cabinet minister, who met Jodie in 2016, says thugs must be taught it is not ‘cool’ to carry a knife.
The Mail attended a number of magistrates and youth courts yesterday and saw a string of knife offenders escape jail.
Jodie Chesney, 17, left, was murdered in a knife attack in east London, while public school boy Yousef Ghaleb Makki, right, was stabbed to death in Hale Barns, near Altrincham, Greater Manchester last Saturday
Mr Makki, 17, was stabbed on Gorse Bank Road Saturday, pictured, and died a short time later after being rushed to hospital
Ms Chesney was attacked near the St Neots Play Park in Harold Hill, east London
Davis was spared a custodial punishment despite sentencing guidelines dictating repeat knife offenders should face a minimum six-month sentence and a maximum of four years.
He had been caught carrying a knife at school at the age of 14, for which he received a police caution.
Last September the teenager from Erdington in Birmingham was stopped by officers who suspected he was dealing drugs. Davis fled but was captured with a lock knife, five bags of cannabis and three wraps of cocaine.
He admitted possessing the knife and drugs and received a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years after obtaining a reference from a charity called Bringing Hope.
Sean Evans, the chairman of the bench, told him: ‘We believe you have the character to change and we want to give you that opportunity.’
Alison Cope, right, lost her son Joshua, left, to a stabbing in Birmingham in 2013. She was outraged that Davis received a suspended sentence after admitting carrying a blade
Natasha Bournes, defending, claimed the aspiring electrical engineer was trying drugs for the first time.
Davis was told to carry out 280 hours of unpaid work and 40 days of rehabilitation. He must also pay £300 in costs.
After the hearing, his lawyer told the Mail: ‘A suspended sentence can be more onerous than a custodial sentence of six months because now he is going to have this hanging over him for two years.’
But the sentence provoked fury from knife campaigners.
Alison Cope, 45, who campaigns against knife crime after her son Joshua Ribero was stabbed to death, said: ‘No wonder he’s laughing and smiling. The courts are showing, yet again, that when it comes to the crunch the consequences of carrying a knife aren’t what the authorities are making out.
‘The Government say they are making a massive deal about knife crime. But are they really? Police and the CPS will have worked hard to get this case to court and the magistrates have just gone, “Don’t worry about it, off you go”.’ The case follows the fatal stabbings of three teenagers, which led to West Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson declaring a ‘national emergency’.
Ministry of Justice figures show that 18 per cent of repeat knife offenders are not jailed, and a further 19 per cent escape immediate custody by getting a suspended sentence.
At Highbury Corner youth court in north London yesterday a 16-year-old thug, who had previously been caught with a knife and convicted of attempted robbery, was given a year-long rehabilitation order for brandishing a Rambo knife at a man in the street.
At Ealing magistrates’ court in west London, a 15-year-old boy caught with two blades was handed a 24-month youth rehabilitation order. The court was told the convicted thief had been groomed to sell drugs for a gang.
ANALYSIS BY SIMON WALTERS: Boris Johnson and Theresa May are once again at war over law and order
Boris Johnson and Theresa May have been sniping at each other over law and order ever since she used her power as Home Secretary in 2011 to ban him from using the water cannon he bought as London Mayor to deal with rioting.
When she became Prime Minister she humiliated him again after he jokingly compared himself to a pet dog reportedly strangled by Michael Heseltine.
Irked by Mr Johnson’s rebellious antics in her Cabinet, she quipped: ‘Boris, the dog was put down – when its master decided it wasn’t needed any more.’
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Theresa May branding her time as Home Secretary as 'a failure'
They carried on feuding over policing methods right up to Mr Johnson’s resignation as Mrs May’s foreign secretary in July last year over Brexit. Four months earlier, he criticised her at a Cabinet meeting for preventing greater use of stop and search to combat rising knife crime in London.
It is no surprise she took Mr Johnson’s remarks personally: Mrs May’s views on stop and search stem from her famous speech in 2002 when, at the height of Tony Blair’s power, she said the then-deeply unpopular Conservatives were in danger of turning into the ‘Nasty Party’. Among the reasons she gave was that it was seen by some as having ‘demonised minorities’.
A decade later, as home secretary, she turned her words into action, supporting curbs on stop and search, portraying it as racist on the grounds that black people were seven times more likely to be stopped than white people.
Abandoning her usual caution, she told MPs: ‘Nobody wins when stop and search is misapplied. It is a waste of police time. It is unfair, especially to young, black men. It is bad for public confidence in the police.’
She claimed that as many as one in four of one million stops carried out in 2013 could have been illegal. Mrs May used the same issue to upstage Mr Johnson at the 2014 Tory conference, when they were front runners in the battle to succeed David Cameron as party leader.
She arranged for Alexander Paul, a black student from Brixton, south London, to introduce her with a moving speech on how he had been stopped and searched 20 times since he was 13 despite having no criminal record.
She paid tribute to Mr Paul again in her 2017 conference speech after he died of cancer, aged 21. But within months, a surge in knife crime in London led to calls for a rethink on the issue.
When Mr Cameron resigned, Mrs May trounced Mr Johnson in the race to succeed him after his leadership campaign imploded. Now the boot is on the other foot. With some Tories claiming Mrs May will have left office by the end of the year, Mr Johnson, bidding to succeed her in Downing Street, is determined to have the last word on knife crime – and on who should run Britain.
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