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Tougher age-checks will be introduced following the Southport knife attack
Posted 22 January 2025 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Health and Safety|National
UPDATES: Following the Southport tragedy, the Government is accelerating tougher age-verification rules for online knife sales, with significant implications for retailers and consumer protection enforcement.
The Government will fast-track plans to clamp down on how ‘shockingly easy’ it is for young people to buy knives online, with tougher measures to prove customers’ ages being introduced in the wake of the Southport knife attack last year.
Axel Rudakubana, who has admitted carrying out the attack, bought a knife on Amazon when he was aged 17. It is illegal in the UK to sell most knives and ...
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