Actress Brooke Kinsella, who is appearing in a play here this week, started an anti-knife campaign after her brother was stabbed to death and has given her support to the Stop.Now campaign. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0997582)

FORMER EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella offered her support yesterday to local anti-knife crime campaigners.

‘Just keep at it. Obviously, there are people who’ve been doing it a lot longer than me, but there are a lot of families working hard to campaign against it. I know how tough it is,’ said the 27-year-old, whose teenage brother, Ben, was stabbed to death in London two years ago. ‘Just keep going and hopefully, one day, we’ll make a difference.’

This September marks four years since the death of James Dean, who was stabbed while on a night out in St Peter Port. His family and friends set up Stop.Now, a charity trying to educate young people about the serious danger of carrying knives.

Miss Kinsella’s family started their own campaign against knife culture, which changed the UK’s sentencing laws for serious knife crime.

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