They really did? I’d heard about that awhile back, but just wrote it off as a rumor/ myth.
Yup. Although what they outlawed are essentially “assault knives.” Similar to the “assault rifle” ban in the US, they banned scary-looking knives while leaving knives with essentially identical function legal.
The guy in the article obviously used perfectly normal kitchen knives, and there is now a movement in UK to ban pointy kitchen knives.