A psychiatrist said two years ago that the suspect in a deadly attack on a Belgian crèche did not need to be sent to a mental institution.

A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered that the suspect in a gruesome knife attack at a crèche be kept in custody.

Two children and an adult were killed on Friday when a man armed with a knife went on a rampage through a child day-care centre in Belgium.

UK police have arrested 2 500 people during a clampdown on knife crime prompted by a series of murders, the government said on Monday.