TYSON Fury has called for knife criminals to be castrated after his cousin Rico Burton was stabbed to death.
The 31-year-old was knifed to death in a 3am "bloodbath" in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, over the weekend.
Earlier today, a man appeared in court charged with murdering Fury's cousin in the fatal attack.
Speaking to talkSport, the heavyweight boxing champion called out the government to take stricter action on the knife crime pandemic before slamming the "cowardly" acts.
A devastated Fury said: "I just had a cousin murdered last week with knife crime. The most cowardly s***house thing anyone can do to somebody.
"The government, the UK, we're supposed to be one of the safest countries in the world.
"We can't go down the street with a watch on or anything or we'll get stabbed."
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The Gypsy King suggested that the government "needs to make it tougher on these cowards who carry knives and weapons".
Fury then incredibly claimed that anyone caught with a knife for stabbing someone "needs castrating".
And the star boxer also called for a sentence of "5-7 years" in jail for even carrying a knife.
He added: "It costs the government too much money to house them in a prison.
"It costs them £60/70,000 a year to put these scumbags in jail. Castrate the little b*stards.
“What little cowardly scumbag needs to carry a knife with them in our country?”
Ex-youth boxing star Rico had been watching the Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk fight with pals on Saturday before they moved to a different pub in leafy Altrincham.
Emergency crews were scrambled to the Goose Green area in the early hours of Sunday morning after a fight allegedly broke out.
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Rico was rushed to hospital but sadly couldn't be saved and was declared dead shortly after.
His death comes amid a wave of knife and gun violence across the UK, much of it focused in London.
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