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BLADE BRITAIN; Walthamstow, East London: Death of Yusuf Miiro (inset) Edmonton, North London: The male victim was just 19 Crosby, Merseyside: Joanne de Asha is found stabbed.

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Byline: Charlotte Gill, Michael Seamark, Olinka Koster

THE scourge of knife crime gripping Britain reached new depths yesterdaywith six murders across the country in less than 24 hours.

Four of the killings were in London in an appalling day of bloodshed whichprompted Gordon Brown to pledge he would introduce new measures to tackle theepidemic.

Describing the 'terrible stabbings' in the past week as 'shocking and tragic',the Prime Minister promised new enforcement tactics and 'tough' parentingprogrammes.

Scotland Yard chief Sir Ian Blair was also forced to issue a reassurance to thepublic that his force was doing 'everything possible' to stop the blight ofknifings.

Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, voiced his 'deep regret' at the deaths andsaid the 'long-term complex root causes of violence' needed to be tackled.

Among the death toll on Thursday was the capital's 20th teenage murder victimthis year, a 19-year-old stabbed in a fight in Edmonton, North London. He wouldhave celebrated his birthday today.

Recent teenage knife victims in the city include 14-year-old David Idowu, whodied on Monday after being attacked three weeks earlier; Shakilus Townsend, 16,who was set upon by a gang in a suspected 'honeytrap' killing; Ben Kinsella,16, who died as he tried to break up a fight outside a bar; 18-year-old HarryPotter actor Rob Knox, and former altar boy Jimmy Mizen, 16. In the 24-hourknife spree, a young man was...

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