Incredible 3ft Zombie SWORD shows shocking scale of street warfare in Lawless London
COPS have seized this terrifying "Zombie sword" after stopping a car in South London.
Officers pulled the car over and discovered the horrific 30inch blade during a search, in the latest example of London's shocking knife crime epidemic.
They tweeted the image after the shocking find in Lewisham, south east London.
Lewisham police say two people have been arrested in connection with the discovery.
Lewisham MPS tweeted: "Officers from the Met Police in Lewisham, SE London stopped a vehicle last night. Upon searching the vehicle they found this shocking #zombie #knife Two people have been arrested."
Earlier this month two masked thugs rammed a car and smashed a motorist’s window with a machete and hammer on a residential street in Birmingham.
A cyclist armed with an enormous zombie knife tried to smash the window of a car in an apparent road rage row in Croydon, South London.
The latest find comes as the capital reels from rising violent crime.
Earlier today London mayor Sadiq Khan admitted he was responsible for the surge in violent crime in the capital but refused to say sorry, pointing the finger at the Government for cutting police numbers.
Confrontational "drill" music has also been said to be fuelling the rise in violence on the streets.
Lawless London - the shocking rise in violent crime
LAWLESS London has seen a terrifying rise in violent crime with sixty moped gang attacks a day and a higher murder rate than New York.
Shocking statistics show how the police have lost control of large parts of the capital, with ultra-violent youths running riot.
The easy availability of knives and acid, and the speed and manoeuvrability of scooters, has combined to see London gang warfare reach terrifying new levels.
The most recent official figures recorded 19,385 moped crimes in just nine months - a rate of around sixty a day.
This is a 1,000 per cent rise in just three years.
As well as moped gang attacks, the capital has also seen a sharp rise in the number of stabbings and shootings.
The new Met Police statistics showed a five per cent rise in violent crime in the past year.
Statistics showed 35 youth homicides in the last 12 months, which was up 25 per cent, a surge in the rate of muggings of 30 per cent, and an 18 per cent rise in knife crime offences.
Since the turn of the year more than 60 people have been murdered on the streets of London - which has seen the capital overtake New York.
A gang from Notting Hill, West London sang in online videos about using mopeds to ambush other gangs with blades and guns, leaving them "splattered" in blood.
One song called No Hook includes sounds of gunshots and boasts of spraying "opps" with bullets.
Lyrics include: "Clock me an opp (rival gang member), wind down the window, back out the spinner (revolver) and burst him.
"I put bullets in numerous guys like how come the opps ain't learning?
"OT trip (out of town or county line) trying to get some funds. We get bread and invest in guns. Dem boy run when we tapped **** Ching (stab) Splash (stab) aim for his lungs."
It goes on: "Four men on two peds (mopeds) jump off with my shank (knife) leave an opp boy splattered."
The Sound Of Violence: how drill music fuels London's murder epidemic
Gang wars in the capital have claimed dozens of lives this year - stoked by a confrontational style of rap music.
Drill originated in Chicago earlier this decade, helping to make the city one of America’s most violent with 650 murders last year.
More recently a grittier style emerged in South London drawing on grime and other genres.
It has swept the UK aided by former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood who hosts drill videos on his YouTube channel.
Lyrics are usually extremely graphic, glorifying violence and gang culture.
Some feuding gangs have recorded "diss tracks", insulting each other online as an incitement to tit-for-tat violence.
The music has been blamed in part for the surge in murders and maimings in London which has claimed at least 62 lives so far in 2018.
Rhyiem Barton, 17, who was gunned down in South London in May, was a member of the Moscow17 drill crew and once appeared in a YouTube video alongside Westwood.
Last month one grieving father branded drill "demonic" and said videos were a "rehearsal" for the murder of his son Jermaine Goupall, 15, last August in Thornton Heath, West London.
The killer was drill artist M-Trap 0, real name Junior Simpson, 17. A judge told him: "You wrote lyrics in your phone that predicted the exact type of crime that took place."
In April another judge cited drill's "malign influence" as he jailed four thugs for the murder of Mahamed Hassan, 17, in Battersea, South West London.
Drill videos were used as evidence against Reial Phillips, known as Lynch, who was jailed for 27 years in 2016 for a series of non-fatal shootings in Birmingam.
And diss tracks posted by two rival East London gangs were at the heart of another murder trial after Rikell Rogers, known as Dubsy, murdered Marcel Addai, 17, in Hackney in 2015.
Scotland Yard has tried to prevent drill gigs and asked YouTube to take down more than 50 videos it says promote gang violence.
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At least 37 people have been fatally stabbed - and 62 overall killed - in London since the beginning of the year.
The terrifying knives get their name from the knives often seen in horror films, particularly "zombie apocalypse" movies.
Selling zombie knives and possessing them in public is already illegal, but the police are still powerless to confiscate or arrest suspects who keep the large blades with serrated edges at home.
The government is concerned that the distinctive look of the blades is leading them to be used as a status symbol in criminal circles.
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