An eight-metre-tall statue made from 100,000 weapons seized by police has arrived in Coventry, central England.

Designed by Alfie Bradley, the imposing work of art aims to explore the devastation that knives can bring to people's lives.

The structure, in the shape of an angel, reportedly took more than five years to create.

Jimmy Connor, who filmed the video, described the feeling at the sculpture as "very poignant" as families laid down flowers for their loved ones.

Some of the knives are engraved with messages from families of victims of knife crime.

The UK has been suffering from a knife crime epidemic with 40 people losing their lives since the start of the year.

The Knife Angel sculpture made at iron works placed in coventry for the world to go and see
all made from knifes and other stabbing and chopping weapons having been collected since 2014 from knife crime on the streets of the uk and been made into this
you feel very sad when you are looking at it people have laid flowers at the base for the loss of loved ones and friends killed by these sort of knives i also have some night pictures i will show later