London Mayor comes under attack following stabbing of Nigerian boy (Video)

London Mayor, Sadiq Khan is under fire for not doing enough to stop knife crimes in the city following the fatal stabbing of a British-Nigerian schoolboy, Daniel Anjorin, by a sword-wielding man on Wednesday.

Anjorin, 14,  was confirmed as the latest victim of London’s knife crime epidemic.

A few minutes after leaving his home on Wednesday, he walked into a sword rampage in Hainault, which also saw four other people, including two police officers, seriously wounded.

The boy was on his way to his private school and had on his headphones when he was allegedly murdered by Brazilian-Spanish national Marcus Aurelio Arduini Monzo.

The city of London is now angry at the apparent failure of Sadiq Khan for ‘failing on knife crime’ in the capital.

Home Secretary James Cleverly was among those slamming the Mayor’s perceived failures on the eve of a string of local elections across England and Wales, including for City Hall.

Mr Khan is also facing calls to look at equipping every front-line officer with a Taser, after two constables received significant injuries during the rampage on Tuesday morning.

Between 2022- 2023, there was a 16% increase in knife crime in the capital with 12,786 knife offences, while last year 22 teenagers were murdered in London, up from 14 the year before.

The rate of knife crime in England rose slightly between 2022 and 2023, from 84 to 89 offences per 100,000 people, according to police figures.

In 2023, there were 165 knife offences per 100,000 people in London, an increase compared with the previous year and the second-highest knife crime rate in the country.

The West Midlands recorded the highest knife crime rate in England, with 180 offences per 100,000 people.

Tory MP James Gray told MailOnline he felt the punishment needed to be ‘punitive’ for people carrying bladed weapons on the streets.

He said: ‘If they realise there’s going to be an absolutely punitive punishment, just for carrying one in their pocket or trousers, they would think again.

‘If you know you are going away for 10 years in solitary confinement until the age of 30, you’ll think twice.’

Nickie Aiken, Tory MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, told MailOnline: ‘I would be supportive of more officers being taser trained if they wish to be. The bigger issue is that Sadiq Khan has failed to recruit enough police.

‘He was given extra Government funding to recruit an extra 1,000 officers, didn’t and the money was given to other forces who have recruited.’

Mr Cleverly accused Labour of failing on knife violence in London, saying that while nationally this type of crime is dropping, it is going up in the capital.

Writing in The Telegraph, the Home Secretary said: ‘Labour are failing at a local level, nowhere more so than in London. Sadiq is failing on knife crime.’

He claimed that Mr Khan is ‘the only PCC [Police and Crime Commissioner] to have failed to hit his police recruitment target’ and that ‘where Labour are in power locally, they are failing’.

Previously Mr Cleverly had hit out at London’s most senior political figure, claiming that ‘he is not focusing on the things that he as mayor of London, as the police and crime commissioner for London should be concentrating on’

He told The Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots show that he felt there was a lack of ‘willingness to be really honest about the increase in knife crime in London’.

He was joined by Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch, who told LBC yesterday she didn’t think Sadiq Khan takes knife crime seriously.

‘Just a few days ago he was on LBC laughing at the Conservative candidate Susan Hall talking about machete-wielding in London,’ she said.

‘I don’t think he takes it seriously. He is responsible for enforcement.’

She added that more focus needs to be put on enforcement following the latest spree of senseless violence.

Ms Badenoch said: ‘We have cracked down numerous times. People keep finding ways to get around them, so there might be more that we can do from a legislative side but I’m one of those people who thinks that bans can only go so far.

‘Murder is banned and people are still killing, so enforcement is what we need to focus on.’

Responding to criticism of the Mayor in the aftermath of the fatal incident in Hainault, a spokesperson for Mr Khan said on Wednesday: ‘It’s quite extraordinary that the Tories are seeking to politicise the awful murder of a child. They have lost all direction and all sense of decency.

Daniel’s mother works at Holy Family Catholic School in Walthamstow, east London.

The school published a statement on its website that said: ‘Mrs Anjorin’s son was taken from this life suddenly this morning on his way to school. Please keep Mrs Anjorin, her husband, and their other children in your prayers.’

See a video of the moment the sword man was cornered by the police here.