The police have stated today that they don't have any description of the attacker.

Really? Who on earth are they trying to kid? They have no basic physical description? They've got absolutely no idea what age range the murderer is in? Or what colour?

Yet she was seen and was known.

So really????

Laura Roberts, London, UK

I was threatened by a gang of youths last night outside my own home and the earliest I can get to see a policeman is tomorrow. The reason? The local bobby was in schools all day lecturing kids on knife crime.

Dave, Preston, UK

How many more? The government need to toughen up and put them away forever.

Sandra, Sutton, Surrey

Surely the only people who can be responsible for the next generation are the ones who precede it.
Seems to me thousands of young people from estates and certain areas of the UK are being severely let down and are reacting to the misunderstanding they are faced with and are turning to the streets.

Claire, London, UK

No surprise really, there will be another tragic death shortly. Until our complacent politicians have the guts to introduce realistic penalties for these heinous crimes then it will continue and most probably increase. We have now reached the point where drastic measures are called for.

Gordon, Birmingham, England

Should this latest stabbing also turn out to have been perpetrated by an immigrant or someone from an ethnic minority then we really have to stop the whitewashing that we the collective we have a problem. We have a problem with sections of society, so address those sections It is not racist to do so

Richard K, Nottingham,

People have everything to easy today. Knife crime is increasing as individulas do not have jobs - they have benefits instead, so they hang around the streets, drinking and talking drugs, provoking fights and situations where people are killed.
The government needs to listen to society and act quick

Jill, Bournemouth, UK

By saying “Knife crime, although we are very worried about it, it is not more serious that it has been previously,” in her mind and in the mind of the government must make it acceptable! Its time this government woke up to the fact that its people do not find it acceptable and started toughing up!

Rich, Edinburgh, UK

What's that? Less comments because this poor woman didn't have a sister who starred in Eastenders...who'd have thought it?

Andy Taylor, Reading,

Youths carried knives 20 years ago but they were not as readily used as they are today. Fights used to be fist fights and not automatically escalate into knife fights.

What has made today's youth so callous that they do not think twice about stabbing someone?

Tamm, Frankfurt,

Saying 'When is this government going to be tougher on crime?' is meaningless. What do you want? Longer prison sentences? The death penalty? People don't stab each other because they've weighed up the possible sentence and decided its worth it. Being 'tougher' will not reduce crime.

jeremy, london, uk

This is what happens when you pack a city full of CCTV cameras and take the bobbys of the beat expecting the 'technology' to do the work.

Another wasted life. How many more is it going to take.........?

Le Tundoir, Liverpool, England!

Surely she was a victim BEFORE being found dead?

The literary quality is visibly dropping. This is very worrying indeed.

Bill, Suzhou, China

Hello,
It may sound trite, but people kill people. From the story of Cain & Abel, It's the nature of the beast. When you ban knives, then they will use bats, when you ban bats they will use rocks, etc. You cannot legislate morality.

Art

Art, Worcester, USA

The most telling part of this article is the comment about it being 'a well-known trouble spot'. Well known by whom? Clearly not the police, or they'd have done something. Right? Solution - tax supermarket alcohol out of existence and reduce the tax on pub booze - take alcohol off the streets!

Julian, Twickenham, UK

We have to be tougher, I know our armed forces are tied up overseas sorting out other peoples mess, why can't we get our TA
out on the streets backing up our police in a big crack down, check out this fantasy goverment website and have your say, www.uk-gov.org.uk

celia, lincolnshire, uk

This Governmen can't introduce tougher sanctions because it is mesmerised by all the pc & do gooder factions on the left to the point that it has become paralysed. These factions want violence. They want the breakdown of law & order because it is an on attack capitalism.

Ray, Croydon,

For how long is the government going to wait before they introduce tougher actions against crime?

Mohammed, Dammam,

I hold the Labour Government entirely responsible for the breakdown in Law & Order.
Their obsession with human rights have completely prevented society from taking the tough decisions that circumstances dictate.

Michael Clarke, High Wycombe,