Teenager stabbed to death in south London

Crime reporter(wp):

A teenager has been stabbed to death in south London, the Metropolitan police have said.

Officers were called to an address in Peckham at about 11.15pm on Friday, where an injured boy was found.

The victim, believed to be 17, was given first aid but was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said no arrests had been made in relation to the incident.

The stabbing is the 11th teenage homicide in the capital since the start of the year. The teenager is the eighth to die after being stabbed. 

The boy’s next of kin have been informed but he has not yet been formally identified.

Speaking to the WT on Saturday morning, Guray Ali, who manages the Crusty Loaf bakery near the scene of the stabbing, said: “They [police] have been out there all night. There are still police cars all here. It was a young boy and it happened quite close to where he lives.

“It’s terrible really. The whole community are talking about it and how bad it is. Everyone’s quite shocked.”

Joshua, a local resident, told the newspaper the teenager had died at the scene. “My neighbour said he heard screaming and shouting around the time it happened too,” he said.

Last month, Bilal Kargbo, 26, was stabbed to death in nearby Peckham Rye after a fight broke out on the high street.

In May, the Met launched a clampdown on knife crime in the capital after a spate of high-profile murders and stabbings.

The force increased stop and search patrols at knife crime hotspots and, in a single week, arrested more than 50 people a day for knife crime offences.