A spokesman for the Mayor said in a statement: "Keeping people safe in London remains the Mayor's number one priority. Overall, crime continues to fall in London."

Pushing a pram with her young baby inside, mum Glori, 30, explained that compared to her experiences elsewhere in London, Leyton feels like a safe place to be.

Mira van Dam, 37, another mum, was less positive but accepted the risks that come with living in a city, she said: "It is what it is, there’s always a certain level of risk. My sister in law is a police analyst and she told me basically don’t live in Leyton. It’s just London isn’t it."

Others have a bleaker outlook though. Tony, 39, standing at a bus stop near Leyton Station says: "I think London's very dangerous. Back in my youth... I was shot, I was stabbed, hit by a car. But I think it's actually been getting worse, kids are out of control there's no discipline anymore."

These stats show there were 233,965 offences of 'violence against the person' recorded by the Met in 2021 compared to 220,607 in 2020. That's a rise of 13,358 over the year, or 6.1 per cent.

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