Labour has said it would crack down on the online sale of lethal knives if it wins power next month, by introducing a law named for a teenager who was killed with a ninja sword. Ronan’s Law would pay tribute to Ronan Kanda , who was just 16 when another teenager murdered him on the streets of Wolverhampton in 2022. His killer had bought the deadly weapon online using his mother’s name and was able to pick it up without any process of ID verification.
Similar weapons were used in the deaths of 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin in Hainault earlier this year and Shawn Seesahai , 19, who was murdered by two 12-year-olds in Wolverhampton last year. Labour said the new law would include a comprehensive ban on possession of a wider range of dangerous knives, accompanied by an end-to-end review of online knife sales with tougher enforcement of ID checks. Ninja swords, samurai swords, machetes and zombie knives would all be outlawed if the legislation goes ahead.
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