Ray Lewis: 'The questions parents must answer'

Boris Johnson's new youth crime supremo Ray Lewis described the latest spate of knife attacks and murders in the capital as a "rising onslaught".

The Deputy Mayor for Young People, speaking on BBC's Newsnight, said: "We need to ask ourselves why we are where we are in the first place. Because this isn't a blow-out, this is a slow leak."

The 45-year-old former prison governor, pictured, said: "This has been an increasing and steadily rising onslaught of lawlessness and abandoned behaviour for a number of years.

"It's about us," he continued. "What is my son doing on the street late at night on the streets, as far as perpetrators are concerned. Where are our children?

"There are some important questions parents need to ask and answer, but also we as adults and people in leadership positions."