Barking and Dagenham Council’s Lost Hours campaign sees Peter Chesney, whose daughter Jodie, 17, who was stabbed to death in a park in east London last year describe his heartbreaking experience.
In a seven-minute long video accompanying adverts on public transport and in train stations, Beatrice Mushiya also talks about the murder of her son Duran Kajiama who was stabbed to death outside a fast food restaurant in 2016.
The campaign highlights an increase in youth violence across Barking and Dagenham over the last decade.
Council figures show that in the last two years, 67 knife attacks on young people have been recorded as well as 1,794 robberies of personal property by a young person.
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