A single stab wound can kill. But too many people believe there’s such a thing as a safe place to stab.
StreetDoctors new film exposes a deadly myth at the heart of knife crime with The Fatal Question.
In this three-minute film, London teenagers interact with a life-sized body sculpture — guessing where they think a stab wound wouldn’t be fatal. Each answer triggers the real story of a young person who tragically lost their life to a single stab wound, told by their loved ones. This is more than a film. It’s an education tool for schools, prisons, and communities across the UK to help young people make informed, life-saving choices.
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The work tackles the dangerous misconception that it’s possible to stab someone without risking their life
StreetDoctors has partnered with Saatchi & Saatchi to launch The Fatal Question, a powerful new campaign which spotlights a chilling misconception that is putting young lives at risk.
While knife crime has received widespread attention for many years, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) revealed in 2025 that police-recorded offences involving knives or sharp objectives have increased by 81% over the past 10 years.
The campaign for StreetDoctors, a charity tackling knife crime by empowering and educating young people to make different choices, investigates the dangerous misconception among this demographic that someone can be stabbed without inflicting serious or fatal harm.
As Martin Griffiths CBE, a leading UK trauma surgeon and Clinical Director for the London Violence Reduction Programme, highlights, “Over the years, I’ve been asked many times “Where is a safe place to stab someone?”. The question reflects a dangerous common myth and highlights the pressure that young people feel to potentially carry weapons.”
The Fatal Question campaign turns the question back to young people to find out what they really think. Teenagers from London schools were invited to engage with a life-sized, interactive human sculpture, pointing to areas of the body where they believed a stab wound would not be fatal – revealing the widespread misconceptions at the heart of the campaign.
Once a body part has been guessed, the statue emits a beam of light which triggers projections of the real-life stories of victims, accompanied by personal accounts from their loved ones, detailing the sobering stories of young people killed by a single stab wound to that area of the body.
The personal stories include high-profile cases such as 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, killed by a single stab to the thigh; Joshua Ribera, a Birmingham-based rapper killed by a single stab wound to his heart; and 12-year-old Ava White, who lost her life to a single stab wound in 2021.
Find out more on StreetDoctors website: https://streetdoctors.org/the-fatal-q…
