Boy, 16, repeatedly stabbed outside church after birthday party

Crime reporter(wp/es):
A teenage boy was stabbed repeatedly at a birthday party in Plumstead in a suspected gang-related crime.

Detectives from Greenwich Gangs Unit are investigating after the 16-year-old boy was found with multiple stab wounds outside the church on St Nicholas' Road on the night of Saturday, April 1.

He was rushed to a central London hospital for urgent treatment and has since been discharged.

Officers believe the victim had been attending a birthday party in the Greenwich area before he was stabbed.

They are appealing for anyone who may have mobile phone footage of the stabbing, believed to have happened just before 11pm, to come forward.

A second teenage boy – aged 17 – was arrested and charged with grievous bodily harm in connection with the incident.

The police appeal comes as another man – aged in his 20s - was stabbed to death with a machete in a brutal suspected murder in Plumstead on Monday.

Police officers rushed to Bournewood Road – just a mile down the road from St Nicholas’ Church – following reports of a knife attack at around 4.30pm.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene and witness described how the man was found inside an address close to the junction with Wickham Lane after being attacked with a machete.