London BLOODBATH: ITV star reveals young Londoners fear – '50/50 chance of death at night'

The ITV weather man made the findings as he filmed his new documentary ‘Knife Crime and Me’, which airs on ITV tonight. He told Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Bacon: “What I got from making the documentary is that there is an incredible amount of fear on the streets. I spoke to some young people that live on an estate in Camden and they said that there was a 50/50 chance of them dying if they came out of the house at night time.

“Now, statistically, there’s not a 50/50 chance.

“But it’s the perceived risk.

“They actually do feel that there is that much of a risk out there on the streets.”

Mr Bacon chimed in: “Which is why they then carry the knife.”

Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was fatally knifed in South West London in March – just 10 days after Mr Beresford had waded into the knife crime debate on Good Morning Britain.

He was murdered on the same street in Fulham as Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando was fatally shot 20 years ago on Friday.

In his documentary, Mr Beresford comes face to face with gang members.

One drug dealer in the West Midlands, “D”, shows Alex his knife and says people that work for him all carry them.

D, 25, says: “The way I describe it at the minute, it’s lawless. Everyone for themselves.

“And everyone is carrying something, pretty much that’s the way I look at it now.

“There is fear, there is no police. You don’t see any policemen driving round in patrols.

“You ain’t got to worry about getting stopped and searched.

Yesterday seven people were stabbed over a period of seven hours in London.

“I have had people pulling knives out on me four or five times in the last six months.

“When we were younger we put snooker balls in socks, stuff like that.

“They were weapons, occasionally there’d be a knife. Mainly it was bats.

“Now it’s every kid goes and gets a knife out of their mum’s kitchen drawer.

“I have seen the change in the city and how bad the younger kids are now.”

Alex returns to Bristol where he was brought up and speaks to a teenager at the Empire Fighting Chance boxing club.

A youth, “Mo”, tells him: “My teenage times have been hard. Sometimes I just carry a knife.

“I know… you are going to get caught by the police but sometimes you know you have just got to risk it.

“Imagine like – you just don’t want to die.”

source: express.co.uk