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Last Modified: 05 Jul 2008
By: Andy Davies

The stepmother of a teenager stabbed to death in London calls plans for 75 extra police officers to tackle knife crime "a drop in the ocean".

The comments came as relatives of 16-year-old Shakilus Townsend gathered at the scene in south London where he was killed on Thursday.

He was the 18th teenager to die in a knife attack in the capital this year, persuading the Metropolitan Police to set up the new task force.