Of you first of all if i may, if you could tell our audience who you have lost and what that person meant to you. My names dwain stewart. This is my brother kieran, and we lost our little brother, lamar stewart, two years ago. He meant the world to our family. He was like the baby of the family, so he was always at home. Youd go to the house and expect to see him there, and we no longer see him there any more. What would you say kieran, what did he mean to you . He was my favourite person, if you want me to be totally honest, always spent so much time with him and his heart wasjust so forgiving and so big. Its been one of the hardest things ive had to deal with ever. Mark, hello. James was our life, and. Can we see the photograph ofjames . Although he was 25 of the family, in actual fact, now hes gone, it feels like half the familys disappeared with him. He was very loud, very lively, and the silence in the house is deafening. Neville, hello. Yeah, im neville, i lost my little brother.
And now we have the best of the weeks exclusive interviews and reports from the Victoria Derbyshire programme. This group of men all of whom have lost a close relative or friend to knife crime have told this programme they feel ignored when it comes to grieving for their loved one. In the year up to march this year, there were round 43,500 knife crime offences across the uk. That is an 80 increase over the previous five years. The number of People Killed with knifes has been steadily rising since 2015. Back in march this year, we spoke to m mums all of whom had lost a son to knife crime. They told us then how it had affected them and what they wanted the authorities to do to stop it happening to others. Now we have brought together 13 dads, brothers, uncle, dads, brothers, uncles, cousins and friends, who have all experienced the same thing. I am going to ask each of you first of all if i may, if you could tell our audience who you have lost and what that person meant to you. My names