Anarchy in the UK as yobs rule

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BRITAIN is on the brink of ANARCHY after a weekend of yob violence, campaigners said last night.

As figures revealed knife crime had DOUBLED in two years, a string of incidents left law-abiding citizens living in terror.

A mob BESIEGED a police station.

A man and a teenage boy were MURDERED in separate incidents and paramedics were ATTACKED as they tended a father and son.

In one county, 999 callers were told there were only THREE police on duty in a town of 22,000 people.

Norman Brennan, director of the Victims of Crime Trust and a serving cop, said: “Violent crime has reached epidemic proportions.

“We are experiencing anarchy on the streets of Britain. There is no other way to describe it.

Government doesn’t get a grip soon, I predict outbreaks of civil disorder within three to five years.”

Mr Brennan branded Labour’s election winning tough-on-crime slogan “the biggest deception in British history”.

He added: “I met somebody this morning who has just been mugged for the fourth time.

“He didn’t report any of the attacks because he has got no faith in the police any more.”

Tories accused the Government of taking two years to wake up to the explosion in knife crime.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “Knife crime is just a symptom of the breakdown in society on our streets.

“The Government owes it to the public to get a grip of drink, drugs and the broken homes that have spawned this plague on Britain.”

One of the weekend’s murders took place in Croydon, South London.

A man in his 20s was stabbed repeatedly in the street.

Police were called after a nearby resident heard screams and a disturbance. The victim’s name had not been released last night.

The other killing happened in Farnworth, Greater Manchester, where Andrew Holland, 16, was knifed after a row at a chip shop.