Notting Hill Carnival sees more than 500 people arrested including 61 using live facial recognition

More than 500 people were arrested over the two days of the Notting Hill Carnival, including 61 after the use of live facial recognition.

The number is up from 349 last year when the event also saw the murders of 32-year-old mother Cher Maximen and chef Mussie Imnetu.

This year police said there was a reduction in serious violence, with four stabbings, none of which resulted in life-threatening injuries.

The Met did not release a full breakdown of the offences suspects were arrested for as it has done in previous years.

But it said there were 167 arrests for drugs offences, 50 for possession of an offensive weapon, 21 for sexual offences, four for violence with injury and 49 for other violence.

There were 55 arrests for assaults on police officers, two of whom needed hospital treatment. One suffered a broken nose and the other a serious bite to the hand.

Police revealed use of live facial recognition led to the arrest of a registered sex offender, a suspect accused of stabbing someone five times with a machete, and another who had been on the run for 10 years

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