'SENSELESS VIOLENCE' London stabbings 2018 – London knife crime statistics including the Walthamstow

How many stabbings took place in London and other regions in the UK over the last year?

At least 36 people have been fatally stabbed in London since the beginning of the year.

Met Police records show 37, 443 recorded knife offences and 6,694 recorded gun offences across the UK in the year up to September 2017.

In London, the problem was even more pronounced than the rest of the country, with 12,980 knife crimes taking place in the capital - 2,452 more than the equivalent year.

Four teenagers were stabbed to death in London on New Year's Eve alone, and 22 were killed in March - meaning the capital now has a higher murder rate than New York

The popular US city had a mere 21 killings in comparison.

Commander Neil Jerome of the Met's territorial policing command condemned the crimes, saying the four families had lost a loved one to "senseless violence and the callous use of knives as lethal weapons".

A shocking night of violence took place on February 20, 2018, with six people reportedly stabbed in North London.

Russell Jones, 23, became the eighth person to die in a week after being ambushed outside shops near Ponders End station in Enfield on Saturday, March 17.

On 29 March a 23-year-old man died in hospital from stab wounds after being attacked and left for dead in Greenwich, South East London.

On April 4 a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in Hackney, East London. He was the 13th person to die in London in just 22 days.

There have been a total of six knife attacks across Walthamstow, Mile End and East India Docks.

On Saturday, April 7, a woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after stabbing a man outside Highbury and Islington station.

On April 11, a man was hospitalised after being stabbed at DLR station at Stratford station, east London.

A woman in her 20s was arrested after stabbing a man in Isle of Dogs on April 12, 2018.

Over the weekend two more people were fatally stabbed in incidents in Colindale and Brixton.

And today cops were called to Head Street in Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, at 3.18pm today and found the 17-year-old male suffering from multiple wounds.

Fatal stabbings in London, 2018

• January 1 - Steve Frank Navarez-Jara, 20, Islington

• January 3 - Elizabeta Lacatusu, 44, Redbridge

• January 8 - Daniel Frederick, 34, died in Hackney

• January 9 - Dami Odeyingbo, 18, stabbed in Bromley

• January 11 - Harry Uzoka, 25, killed in Shepherd's Bush

• January 28 - Yaya Mbye, 26, stabbed in Stoke Newington

• January 29 - Juan Olmos Saca, 39, stabbed in Peckham

• January 31 - Khader Saleh, 25, stabbed at Wormwood Scrubs prison

• February 3 - Hassan Ozcan, 19, knifed in Barking

• February 3 - Kwabena Nelson, a youth worker, died after being stabbed near his home in Tottenham

• February 8 - Hannah Leonard, 55, stabbed in a flat in Camden

• February 11 - Sabri Chibani, 19, stabbed in Streatham

• February 13 - Saeeda Hussain, 54, was stabbed in Ilford

• February 14 - Lord Promise Nkenda, 17, stabbed in Canning Town

• February 18 - Lewis Blackman, 19, knifed in Kensington

• February 19 - Rotimi Oshibanjo, 26, stabbed in Southall

• February 20 - Sadiq Mohammed, 20, stabbed in Camden

• February 20 - Abdikarim Hassan, 17, stabbed in Camden

• February 25 - Michael Boyle, 44, stabbed in the chest

• March 1 - Christopher Beaumont, 42, stabbed in Hammersmith

• March 5 - Laura Figueira, 47, stabbed in Twickenham

• March 5 - Kelva Smith, 20, knifed in Croydon

• March 14 -  Lyndon Davis, 18, stabbed in Chadwell Heath

• March 16 - Naomi Hersi, 36, found with stab wounds at hotel near Heathrow Airport

• March 17 - Russell Jones, 23, stabbed in Enfield

• March 18 - Tyrone Silcot, 41, stabbed in Hackney

• March 19 - Balbir Johal, 48, knifed in Southall

• March 19 - A 41-year-old was stabbed to death in Waltham Forest but is yet to be identified

• March 20 - Beniamin Pieknyi, 21, stabbed at Stratford shopping centre

• March 26 - David Potter, 50, stabbed in Tooting

• March 29 - Reece Tshoma, 23, stabbed in Plumstead

• March 30 - Leyla Mtumwa, 36, found with stab wounds at a home in Haringey

• April 1 - A 20-year-old was stabbed in Wandsworth, but police have not formally identified the victim

• April 4 - A 38-year-old man stabbed at a house in Lewisham has not yet been formally identified

• April 4 - Israel Ogunsola, 18, was stabbed to death in Hackney on 4 April. Police were alerted by a motorist and performed first aid but the teenager died at the scene

• April 5 - Five teenagers and one one man were stabbed in London within a space of 24 hours. One of the victims was aged 13 and left fighting for his life

• April 7 - Man was stabbed by a woman outside Highbury and Islington station at around 10pm, though his condition is still unclear

• April 9 - A man in his 70s was stabbed four times and robbed as he returned to his Harold Hill home after collecting his pension

• April 12 - A woman in her 20s was arrested after stabbing a man in Isle of Dogs on April 12, 2018.

• April 15 - A man named locally as Raul Nicolaie was knifed to death just before 6pmin Colindale, North London.

• April 15 -  A woman in her 30s was stabbed to death in Brixton, South West London, just after 6.30pm and police have arrested a man in his 20s