Woman pulls out huge knife and lunges at young reveller in London park

A party at a London park ended with dozens of screams after an attacker began swinging a large knife at a woman.

Snapchat video captured the moment the hooded perpetrator whipped out the blade in Gladstone Park, north London, on Monday.

The weapon was inches from slashing the terrified victim, as she backed away while others fled.

A man filming the attack can be heard screaming, ‘She backed out a shank, are you mad?’ meaning she brought out a knife.

Police officers descended on the scene just after 10pm after the video went viral on social media, but they could not locate the alleged knife-wielder or weapon, the force told Metro.

There were no reported injuries and arrests have been made.

Metro revealed that almost half of all murders in the UK over the last two years have been due to stabbings or violent incidents with a blade.

Figures show that out of the 898 recorded murders in the UK over the last three years, 443 of these murders were committed using a knife, stabbing, or a sharp instrument.

Data gathered from Freedom of Information Requests (FOI) from 38 police forces across the UK between 2022-2024 highlighted the worrying rise.

Labour says it will bring 3,000 police officers back on the streets alongside a five-step plan to ‘tackle the issue ‘take back our streets’.

This includes the banning of ninja swords this summer.

The sword – which has become a weapon of choice for street killers in the UK – will be banned from August 1.

The move follows tireless campaigning from the family of Ronan Kanda, who was killed on a Wolverhampton street in a case of mistaken identity in 2022.

A spokesperson for the Met Police told Metro of the Gladstone Park incident: ‘On Monday at 10.30pm, police attended Gladstone Park, Brent, having been made aware of a video on social media of a woman with a knife.

‘Officers saw no one who matched the description of the woman in the video.

‘No one was injured, no weapons were found and no arrests were made. Enquiries continue.’

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