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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 ...