A Birmingham man who was slashed with a pocket knife for his phone as a teenager says the event has changed how he views the world.
Knife crimes reported to West Midlands Police have drastically increased since 2017 — with over a third of suspects being adults over the age of 30.
A 24-year-old man, from Birmingham, has now spoken out about how he was slashed with a pocket knife by a grown man when he was a teenager as his attacker tried to take his phone.