Hunt for gang who ransacked knife amnesty bin

Police are on the hunt for a group who broke into a bin full of knives that had just been surrendered. The suspects were caught on CCTV hauling the weapons collected by police as part of a knife amnesty. Officers installed the ‘knife surrender bin’ following a 52 per cent spike in knife crime across area over the past year.

But a day later the bin in Weston-super-Mare was broken into and the knives were taken. PC Jon Biggins said: ‘On the evening of March 13, the knife surrender bin in Weston was broken into by a number of people. ‘The contents were recovered a short distance away, and the whole incident was caught on CCTV. ‘We are in the process of identifying those responsible in order to bring about a prosecution.’