Davood Ghadami (proper) will be seen at his character's brother's funeral in Friday's episode
EastEnders actor Davood Ghadami has stated he hopes the cleaning soap's present knife crime storyline will make people think twice earlier than choosing up a weapon.
Ghadami performs stabbing victim Shakil's brother, and Friday's episode will function clips about real-life victims.
"Hopefully it could possibly assist begin one thing and even the smallest most minute factor.
"Someone could think twice about picking up a knife before leaving their house, and even if they do that we have done something," the actor stated.
Friday's programme will revolve round Shakil's funeral, however the present's drama will be interspersed with true-life accounts from people who've misplaced relations to knife crime.
There have been 70 murders within the capital between January and June, in response to Metropolitan Police knowledge.
"We get hit with a lot of statistics about it, we know it's in the news and not everybody wants to watch the news," Ghadami, who performs Kush Kazemi, instructed the Press Association.
"Everybody is sort of completely satisfied to be unaware of sure issues however typically people know what's going on, particularly in London and different cities and cities the place it is taking place far, far an excessive amount of.
"everybody acknowledges there is a problem but when you get whole family that can sit down and watch something, maybe it can make them discuss the problems they have seen."
Bonnie Langford, who performs Shakil and Kush's mom Carmel, additionally stated she hopes the present will immediate people to think about the issue.
"The last thing we want is to tell people what to dothis is not preaching, this is not some kind of a campaign to change the world," she stated.
"It's saying, this is the world, how can we do something about it? And the only way you can do it is by asking people to think and listen and feel, and the feeling is what will make people do something and maybe change."
Langford additionally stated she was helped to organize for her scenes by former EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella, whose brother Ben was stabbed to loss of life in 2008. She has been advising the cleaning soap on the present plot.
Langford stated: "To have that much sadly personal knowledge but also what she's been doing since, all the campaigning and all the wonderful work and everything, it was invaluable having her support."
Meanwhile, Wireless Festival, which takes place in London this weekend, has introduced it will maintain a minute's silence in honour of those that have misplaced their lives to avenue violence this yr.