Parents' shock after children find knife in park sandpit

Parents Zoe Bonner and Nelson Osborne speak of their shock after a knife was found in a park sandpit where their children were playing

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00:00basically we were just obviously at the park having fun enjoying the summer holidays like usual

00:04the kids having a right laugh and fun in the in the sandpit over there and then all of a sudden

00:09they under uncovering a knife in the sandpit at first we thought it was a toy knife or some

00:15sort of thing that's just been lobbed in there from the pound shop or something it wasn't until

00:19the kids picked it up you could see it was a real proper knife but it was also stained at the bottom

00:24with a bit of rust but it was just really scary more than anything because children that play in

00:29there they're so little if they sat on that knife or even if they cut themselves worse on it they

00:35roll around in their stomachs all the time and it was only in a sand about that deep so i think

00:40that's what makes it even more scary and also it's just it's such a nice park it's such a family

00:46community park and there's nothing any there's never any sort crime here or drugs or bikes

00:52there's nothing so the fact that a knife so big like that has been found in the kids park is just

00:57really scary more than anything uh we're regulars at the park me and my two children

01:02uh we're here quite a lot three or four times a week maybe and um i always tell my children

01:07whenever we go out anywhere towards everything else to always watch out sharp objects and when

01:12we get to the sandpit i don't really tell them to watch out sharp objects and the one thing we did

01:16find yesterday was um children that they were playing with they dug up a knife and the knife

01:21looked like it had been used because there was about an inch and a half uh an inch and a half

01:26worth of rust was the front end obviously that was right in the middle of the sandpit and uh

01:31that weren't really a nice feeling at the time the kids saying that they found a knife in the

01:35sandpit when the children were playing um it gave me a bad flashback of living in london

01:40when i was younger if i'm honest and i didn't really expect that to be in this sandpit