The annual Bank Holiday weekend event that celebrates Caribbean culture has had the least knife attacks this year since 2017.

Police were called to four reports of stabbing or slashing incidents, none of which resulted in life-threatening injuries.

In one of the attacks, it is alleged that a person was stabbed five times with a machete, according to the Metropolitan Police.

It follows after the force initially reported there were two stabbings in its previous update on Monday (August 25) at 8pm.

In Freedom of Information (FoI) data shows just how much this differs from previous years.

In 2017 there were 12 stabbings, none of which fatal.

The year after, there were seven knife attacks and the year after there were 18, again which were nonfatal.

Then in 2022, there were seven stabbing

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