Voices Against Violence

Across News Shopper's circulation area 22 youong people have been killed in the past five years.

Our campaign is not about stating the obvious, that guns and knives are wrong. Instead we want to hear your voices against violence - we want your comments, suggestions and ideas on what can be done to stop the bloodshed on our streets.

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Key to the killings:

1. March 20 2003. Sabina Rizvi, 25, shot in Watling Street, Bexleyheath.
2. December 28 2003. Terry Gregory, 19, from Eltham, stabbed at a bus stop in Woolwich Church Street, Woolwich.
3. January 21 2004. Vin Vu Quang, in his early 20s, of no fixed address, found stabbed at the junction of White Post Street and New Cross Road, New Cross.
4. March 19 2004. Patrick Garber, 21, of Farley Road, Catford. Stabbed in Sydenham Road, Sydenham.
5. July 17 2004. Steven Carrigan-Cole, 18, of Bromley Road, Downham. Stabbed with a toasting fork following an argument outside the Coach and Horses, Lewisham High Street.
6. September 26 2004. David Frasier, 20, of Moremead Road, Bellingham. Stabbed in his road.
7. February 26 2005. David Wheaton, 19, from Welling. Found murdered in Villas Road, Plumstead.
8. July 25 2005. Peter Buahin, 23. Shot while on his bicycle in Woodpecker Road, Deptford.
9. September 28 2005. Rochelle Holness, 15, of Nelgarde Road, Catford. Her remains were found on the Milford Towers estate, Catford.
10. July 15 2006. Julian “Busta” Knight, 16, from Thamesmead. Stabbed in Overton Road, Thamesmead.
11. November 28 2006. Emmanuel Odunewu, 19, from Lee, stabbed at a bus stop outside Lewisham Police Station.
12. December 10 2006. Eddie Jones, 25, from Bexleyheath. Died after being hit around the head with a brick in Lovel Avenue, Welling.
13. July 14 2007. Abdala Jama, 20, from Plumstead, stabbed in Barnfield Road, Plumstead.
14. October 2 2007. Magda Pniewska, 26, care worker from Poland, shot in cross fire in John Williams Close, New Cross.
15. October 14 2007. Philip Poru, 18, shot while sitting in a silver Ford Fiesta, in Long Walk, Plumstead.
16. May 3 2007. Warren Gray, 24, shot in Milford Towers estate, Catford.
17. May 7 2007. Paul Baker, 25, of Westhurst Drive, Chislehurst. Died after a fight outside the Lounge Bar in Whitehorse Hill, Chislehurst.
18. June 23 2007. Ben Hitchcock, 16, of Blean Grove, Penge. Stabbed during a fight in Copers Cope Road, Beckenham.
19. January 5 2008. Faridon Alizada from Woolwich, 18, stabbed in Waterhead Close, Erith.
20. February 19 2008. Sunday Essiet, 15, stabbed in Invermore Place, Plumstead.
21. May 10 2008. Jimmy Mizen, 16, of Dallinger Road, Lee. Died from a cut to the throat at the Three Cooks Bakery in Burnt Ash Hill.
22. May 24 2008. Rob Knox from Sidcup, 18, Stabbed outside the Metro Bar in Station Road, Sidcup.