UK Army medic on helping young knife crime victims

A British army doctor who's spent years treating injured soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan is now using his skills to help victims of knife and gun crime on the streets of London.

Lieutenant Colonel Chris Wright from the Royal Army Medical Corps has served 12 tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.

He is posted to the major trauma centre at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington.

The London hospital deals with a high volume of young victims of knife crime.

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