THE mother of a man knifed to death in Boscombe is hoping to work with one of Bournemouth’s MPs in the wake of this month’s attacks.

Three knife-related incidents happened on Monday and Tuesday, September 8 and 9, and now Jane Ormerod, whose son Nicholas was killed by homeless alcoholic Mark Haylock in 2011 aged 29, is hoping to take action.

In the wake of his death, Jane set up the charity Turn Your Back UK, which aims to educate young people about knife crime and its consequences and she wants to work with Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood.

Jane, who lives in Southbourne, told the Daily Echo: “I would like to listen to what he thinks we can do and come along and work with us.

“These knife issues in Dorset are related a lot to drugs and alcohol.

“With a lot of them, knives, drugs and alcohol are en-grained in their lifestyle.

“Our charity is about the implications of carrying a knife and the implications on people if you take someone’s life.

“It’s about helping our youth to make informed choices.

“There are no winners when someone uses a knife.

“Unless we educate our children that knives aren’t to be used in anger – they’re for the kitchen – then we have no hope of changing the future generation.”

Mr Ellwood told the Echo that he hoped to meet with Jane shortly.

He said: “There are various facets to this, with the charities alongside the work that the police do.

“There are so many stakeholders here and it’s about what the community wants and believes in in moving this forward and that should guide the council in their work.”

Mr Ellwood added: “These are obviously unwelcome headlines but we do need to keep things in context – overall crime in Boscombe is down.

“There are elements of violent crime that are up, but they are up across the country and the rise in Bournemouth doesn’t match the rise across the country.”

He said that, although drug rehab centres should not be directly linked to the latest incidents, he had written to the council to ask what extra powers they would need from the government to tackle the problem of unregulated centres in Boscombe.