The 12 deadly London shootings in 2024 including 6 where the gunman remains at large

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The 12 deadly London shootings in 2024 including 6 where the gunman remains at large

Last year, London gun crime increased by just under 20 per cent - rising from 1,009 offences in 2022 to 1,208 in 2023. But speaking to reporters outside New Scotland Yard in June, Commander Paul Brogden insisted 'serious' incidents are down. Fatal shootings had fallen by 40 per cent, from 15 homicides in 2022 to nine in 2023, he said.

Six months later the Met is facing a 33 per cent rise in fatal gun incidents over the last year. The latest victim was 44-year-old Michelle Sadio, killed in a drive-by shooting outside a wake in West London. This year the force has also dealt with the fall out from the non-fatal shooting of a nine-year-old girl at a cafe in Dalston, the gunning down of an eight-year-old girl in Ladbroke Grove, and the accidental shot-gun blast to a pub window in Clapham.

Cdr Brogden explained criminals were increasingly using converted guns, which were originally designed to fire blanks. Of the 386 firearms which were recovered in the capital in 2023, 46 per cent of them were converted weapons. The blank-firing guns are often sold legitimately to be used in drama productions or farming, but criminals are illegally converting them into lethal weapons.

While the stats show a year-on-year increase, the outlook is less bleak when set against historical standards. In 2003, the peak year for homicides in London with 216, Met Police data records 28 were shootings. The number of fatal shootings rose to 30 in 2007, but that has dropped significantly since 2010 with an average of around 10 fatal shootings per year.

On the state of gun crime in the UK, Action on Armed Violence, a charity that presents research to the United Nations, concluded: "Gun-related homicides, while stable, remain a concern but at a much lower incidence than knife-related cases."

The charity recommends understanding demographic disparities, improving socio-economic conditions, enhancing community support, and addressing domestic violence to mitigate the impact of gun and knife violence in the UK more generally.

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