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Tyson Fury announces cousin has been stabbed to death

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Updated 12:19 21 Aug 2022 GMT+1Published 11:39 21 Aug 2022 GMT+1

Tyson Fury announces cousin has been stabbed to death

Tyson Fury's cousin Rico Burton was stabbed to death last night, and the heavyweight boxing champion has called for an end to knife crime

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Featured Image Credit: @tysonfury/Instagram. REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Tyson Fury, Boxing, Sport, UK News, World News

Tom Wood
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Tom Wood is a LADbible journalist and Twin Peaks enthusiast. Despite having a career in football cut short by a chronic lack of talent, he managed to obtain degrees from both the University of London and Salford. According to his French teacher, at the weekend he mostly likes to play football and go to the park with his brother. Contact Tom on [email protected]

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Tyson Fury has said his cousin was stabbed to death last night, making an emotional plea for the end of knife crime.

Fury tweeted: “My cousin was murdered last night.

“Stabbed in the neck, this is becoming ridiculous idiots carry knives. THIS NEEDS TO STOP.”

The world heavyweight boxing champion concluded: “RIP RICO BURTON.”

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The 'Gypsy King' repeated his call in an Instagram post, writing: “This needs to stop, ASAP.

“[The] UK government needs to bring in higher sentencing for knife crime, it’s a pandemic and you don’t know how bad it is until it’s [one] of your own!

“Life is very precious and it can be taken away very quick, enjoy every moment.

“RIP Rico Burton, may the lord God grand you a good place in heaven."

“See you soon.”


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He ended with the hashtag #onlycowardscarryweapons.

It is not yet known where Burton was allegedly murdered, but knife crime continues to rise across Britain.

Figures released at the end of 2021 showed that 37,589 knife and offensive weapon offences were recorded between September 2020 and September 2021.

That’s an increase of three percent over the same period the previous year.

However, over that same period the number of offenders receiving an immediate prison sentence decreased to 28 percent, down from around 36 to 38 percent between 2017 and 2020.

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Members of the governing Conservative Party have spoken in recent times about the alarming rise in knife crime, claiming that their government aims to crack down hard.

However, last year saw just 5,615 people jailed for carrying or using a knife to threaten people, down from a high of 7,404 in 2018.

Repeated calls have been made by activists to crack down on knife crime.
Akira Suemori/Alamy Stock Photo

Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke told the Daily Express: "The Government has made clear it wants to crack down on knife crime.

"But to do that, we need the courts to do their job.

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"It is not good enough just passing community and suspended sentences.

"It won't bring about a real deterrent. Knife crime has become a scourge on our youth society.

"These sorts of sentences do not send a deterrent message."

Tyson Fury spent last night watching the fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua, as Usyk retained his world heavyweight titles against his British opponent in Saudi Arabia.

After the fight, Fury - who has claimed to be retired since his previous victory over Dillian Whyte - said that he would come back, urging the promoters for a potential unification bout between him and Usyk to 'get [their] chequebooks out'.

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