Graphic videos will be emailed to youngsters to shock them out of knife crime under a major drive unveiled yesterday.
The move follows a call by the Daily Mirror's Stop Knives, Save Lives campaign for greater use of text messaging and the internet to tackle blade violence.
The film clips made by Tower Hamlets Council show the bloody effects of knife attacks and will be posted on internet sites such as YouTube and Bebo.
They will also be sent at random to mobile phones via Bluetooth, with young people being encouraged to forward them on.
One video shows a young man with blood gushing from a deep wound to his neck. It ends with the message: "Carry a knife and you risk being stabbed on your own blade."
Another features a doctor talking about the seriousness of knife wounds while a third depicts staged CCTV footage of a street attack.
It comes after two more victims were knifed to death at the weekend. There are an average 56 stabbings a day nationwide. Twenty teenagers have died from the blade in London this year.
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