STAB-PROOF school uniforms are on sale in Britain for the first time as worried parents rush to protect youngsters from spiralling knife crime.

Mums are paying £65 a time to have school blazers and jumpers lined with Kevlar — the material used in armoured vests worn by British troops in Iraq.

The chilling move comes after seven boys under 16 died in knife attacks within two months this year.

Knife-resistant uniforms are now being sold by Essex-based firm BladeRunner. Bosses Adrian Davis, 37, and Barry Samms, 33, normally make Kevlar-lined clothing for police and security guards. First they saw a gap in the teen market and began offering Kevlar HOODIES after discovering scared youngsters are wearing stab-proof vests on the streets.

Adrian said: “We’ve had so many calls from parents requesting the service in time for their children to go back to school, we think we’ll have to set up a whole division devoted to it.

“Parents send us in blazers and jumpers and we line it with Kevlar.

“It’s discreet and no one would ever know you were wearing it.”

Isobel Ball, 39, of Romford, Essex, contacted BladeRunner after her daughter Amy, 13, was mugged for her mobile on a school bus. She said: “I’ve been worried sick. Knife crime is a real problem facing the youth of today. She’ll have a stab-proof blazer for as long as she’s at school, or until the Government does something about the menace on our streets.”

Amy said: “I feel a lot more at ease knowing I’m protected.”

Kimberley Starr supports stab-proof clothes for children since her daughter Bridie, 14, was knifed in the stomach outside her Bristol school. Care worker Kimberley, 45, said: “If she had been wearing it, she wouldn’t have had to spend two weeks in hospital.”

Kevlar is a light synthetic fibre that can be spun into a fabric five times stronger than steel.

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