13 Stabbings, One Death. A Typical Night in Knife-Culture Scotland

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IT WAS a terrifying way for a young life to end. A gang chased him into a dingy block of flats and knifed him to death. Locals in Rutherglen, near Glasgow, had heard screams and shouts as he knocked on doors for help that came too late.

In the early hours of yesterday morning, the as yet unnamed 25- year-old became the latest victim of the knife crime epidemic sweeping Scotland.

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13 Stabbings, One Death. A Typical Night in Knife-Culture Scotland

But this newspaper can reveal that over the course of the same Friday night, at least another 12 people were stabbed or slashed in Scotland. Unlike the Rutherglen victim they were fortunate enough to live to tell the tale.

Eleven hospital A&E departme...

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