This was the dramatic moment a knifeman grappled with police and tried to escape from a ‘stop-and-search’ in northwest London.
Duval Evans, 19, was subjected to a routine search by police officers near Austen Road in Harrow on April 11.
The officers, who recorded the incident on body-worn cameras, quickly found a knife stashed in his jacket pocket.
Evans then tried to hold on to the blade and run away, but the officers managed to hold him back and arrest him.
Evans, from South Harrow, pleaded guilty at Hendon Magistrates’ Court to possession of a controlled drug, possession of an offensive weapon and assault of a police officer.
He was sentenced to 46 weeks behind bars on May 17.
Police Sergeant PJ Jones, from Harrow, said: “We have the support of our local communities and partners to target knife carriers.
“Communities are now speaking out about their intolerance of those who continue to endanger lives by carrying weapons.
“We will stop those who carry knives, we will search them, and we will imprison them to protect our residents.
“This sentence demonstrates the courts dedication to sentencing knife carriers to custodial sentences.”
It comes after Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said the vast majority of Londoners support increased police stop-and-search powers to combat “outrageous” levels of knife crime in the capital.
