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In the space of the last four week, Sheffield has seen two men murdered in separate stabbings – Coley Byrne and Fatjon Oruci – and there was a stabbing in Gleadless last week.

It comes after a year with a number of shocking stabbings and deaths, many of which are still being dealt with in the courts.

They include the deaths of 24-year-old Mohamed Issa Koroma on High Street in Sheffield city centre and the killing of Anthony Summer on Windy House Lane, Manor, in July.

Knife crime is dealt with regularly at Sheffield Crime Court and this year some offenders in the city have been jailed for life for murder

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However, the spate in crimes prompted South Yorkshire Police to launch Operation Sceptre in late 2021, which saw a week of action against knife crime that saw 83 arrests and took 37 blades off the streets.

And after the sentencing of one 18-year-old in September, Sheffield Judge Michael Slater called knife crime “a plague” .

It comes as more than 1,200 people were taken to hospital after being stabbed in South Yorkshire in the past decade.

Killer Emar Wiley must spend a minimum of 16 years behind bars for the murder of Lewis Bagshaw. He was 16 when he stabbed the dad-of-one to death on the Southey Estate in July 2019. He then had another 32 months added for stabbing a prison officer.

In the same time period, the county saw 4,898 cases resulting in cautions or convictions involving knives.

But these shocking incidents don’t go unpunished, and in 2021 dozens of people who chose to use knives against others have been jailed for extensive sentences.

These are the faces of some of the most serious knife crime cases South Yorkshire has seen in the last year.

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