YouTuber Alberto Dumba raising awareness of knife crime

YouTuber Alberto Dumba has witnessed the effect knife crime has had on his friends and wants to raise awareness of the danger of possessing weapons.

The 21-year-old has been part of youth project SPACE2 in Newcastle for seven years. The group launched a social media campaign to highlight the effects of knife crime in a bid to help to reduce crime rates in the city centre.

From 2014-15 to 2018-19 the number of knife crime incidents in the North East and Cumbria went up from 932 to 1,747.

Watch more on this story on Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria on BBC One at 19:30 on Monday 16 September or catch up afterwards on the iPlayer.