Overview
- Leanne Lucas, a survivor of the Southport attack, has launched the Let's Be Blunt campaign urging households to replace pointed tips with rounded ends.
- She is appealing to manufacturers and retailers to stock safer designs to enable a consumer-driven shift.
- The call is being spotlighted at Thursday's Reducing Knife Harm conference at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, with contributions from former judge Nic Madge of the Safer Knives Group.
- Home Office data cited by advocates report roughly two deaths a week involving kitchen knives, with kitchen knives in over half of homicides using pointed weapons.
- Campaigners present rounded tips as a practical harm-reduction step that complements wider prevention and retailer safeguards rather than a single solution.