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A barrister who prosecutes local crooks is planning to visit St Albans schools in a bid to keep children away from a life of crime.

Peter Shaw, based at the Crown Prosecution Service in Victoria Street, is to visit schools in the district in the hope that children will steer clear of knife crime.

He said: "We are always going to be able to restrict access to firearms, because they are illegal, but knives are so much more readily available."

Mr Shaw is to show vivid CCTV images from a recent Hertfordshire knife attack which ended in a victim bleeding to death.

The horrifying pictures will be accompanied by computer-generated simulations, which he says teenagers find more arresting than actual photographs.

He said: "I want to show them it is not a game when somebody's life is ebbing away."

The barrister has already visited Nicholas Breakspear School, and is planning to drop into others in the area soon.

10:03am Friday 9th May 2008

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