Gun crime rise: One person killed or injured every three days last year

A worrying new trend has seen gun crime rise in the capital, with one person killed or seriously injured every three days last year.

A total of 12 people were shot dead in London in 2016, while 89 were seriously injured.

Overall, 691 people were shot at, injured or killed by a gun, or threatened with a firearm in the capital last year.

Guns were fired 744 times - a rise of more than 74 per cent from 2015, which saw 427 firearms incidents, Met Police figures show.

• The number of people threatened, shot at, injured or killed by a gun rose by almost 80 per cent compared to the year before

• In 2015 ten people were killed by guns, while there were 52 serious injuries, and 322 fewer serious incidents

• The worst hit borough for gun crime last year was Newham in east London, which saw 56 incidents, compared to 20 the year before

• Hackney and Havering, both east London, saw 39 and 38 incidents respectively, compared to 24 and 21 the year before

• The borough with the fewest was Richmond upon Thames, in leafy south west London, which had two incidents last year - the same as 2015