World Britain’s ‘pervasive horror of knife crime’ reaches record for number of stabbing homicides April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY Comments Off on Britain’s ‘pervasive horror of knife crime’ reaches record for number of stabbing homicides Two-hundred and eighty-five people died in knife-related homicides in England and Wales in 2018. It's being call a national crisis.