Claim: Two thirds of knife offenders under 25 were black or minority ethnic.
Fact-check: Are a majority of youth knife offenders minority ethnic? - Full Fact
Verdict: in england and wales 38% of knife possession offenders under 25s were non-white in 2017. it was two thirds in london.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2018-11-22T00:00:00