A top department store has been blasted for selling a T-shirt showing a bloody stab wound with a flick knife sticking out of it.
The designer shirt, which the store has now been forced to remove from the shelves, makes youngsters wearing it look like they have been stabbed in the heart.
Selfridges in London's Oxford Street put the £30 shirt on sale just days after a man died from a single stab wound to the heart on the world famous shopping strip.
Janina Rout, 47, was with a friend buying for her teenage son when she came across the shirt, promoting the LA punk band the Red Hearts.
Janina, a mother of one from Brighton, said: "The shirt was among clothes aimed at young men around the age currently being killed in knife attacks.
"I can't understand why Selfridges would sell such a design at the moment. It simply shouldn't have been there - maybe in a tattoo parlour but not in Selfridges. It's in very poor taste.
"It's not the sort of message they should be putting across at the moment when knife crime is such a problem.
"Even more shocking was that a lad was stabbed to death on Oxford street a few weeks before."
Janina complained to a member of staff who refused her request to remove the Tshirts from sale.
She later called the store before receiving a letter from the company apologising.
A Crimestoppers spokesman, said: "This is fashion at its most reckless. We are amazed that a quality store like Selfridges could be so naive with its buying."
The shirt went on sale soon after Steven Bigby, 22, died during a row outside McDonald's on Oxford Street.
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