It comes as the Home Office announced a raft of anti-knife crime plans on Wednesday, including making retailers report bulk or suspicious sales to police, and increasing the jail sentence for selling weapons to children, or illegal blades such as zombie knives, to two years.
Four of the five victims have been adult males, and the other was 14-year-old boy Kelyan Bokassa – who was stabbed around 27 times as he travelled home on a route 472 bus in Woolwich, south-east London, on January 7.
Police have arrested two men, aged 23 and 25, on suspicion of murder over the attack in Bodney Road, Hackney on Tuesday evening.
A woman who said she was a family friend told the PA news agency: “What did he do to be dead?
Locals said the man had family in Brighton, but lived in the area.
