Concern at knife crime sentences / BBC.co.uk, 30 July 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7533102.stm

The jail terms for knife offences ranged between two and four months
Fewer than one in five people charged with knife offences are sent to prison, Metropolitan (Met) Police figures show. Staff monitored 103 individuals charged with such offences in one week in June during an anti-knife crime operation.