MS DYNAMITE joined grieving families of gun crime on Monday to mark the last few days of the gun amnesty.

The pop star and peace campaigner appeared in Wood Green High Road at noon to call for an end to the spate of killings that have shocked Haringey.

She said: "My heart goes out to families that are affected by gun crime. The violence needs to stop, the crime needs to stop.

"The message that guns are cool is something I can't comprehend. We, as adults, have created the problem and we, as adults, need to fix the problem. I don't want to see any more young people die."

In front of a crowd of around 100, the heavily pregnant star unveiled a knotted gun statue, a peace symbol which will be sited in the borough until Monday.

Council leader George Meehan, Deputy Mayor of London Nicky Gavron and Borough Commander Stephen Bloomfield all turned up to witness the event.

Ms Dynamite also spent private time with Shirley Peart, the mother of Pauline Peart who was shot while innocently sitting in her car in Tottenham.

Mrs Peart said: "I am not coping very well with the loss of my daughter. It is a major loss to me. I strictly urge boys and girls to put down the guns and take them to police.

"If family and friends know they are carrying guns they should help them to get rid of them. No-one should suffer the loss that I am suffering now."

The month-long gun amnesty ended last night, with Haringey singled out by the Metropolitian Police as having a surprisingly poor response.

By last Friday, 46 firearms and 3,142 rounds of ammunition had been surrendered to police in the borough.

Yesterday, the Knotted Gun statue was set to be placed outside the police kiosk in Seven Sisters.

It is owned by the Non-Violence Foundation established in South Africa, and was originally created in memory of John Lennon in 1980 by Swedish artist Karl Frederick Reuterward.

May 1, 2003 10:30