Boys aged 14 and 15 are arrested as 14-year-old schoolboy fights for life after being repeatedly stabbed in frenzied north London knife attack as capital’s crime wave continues
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Boys aged 14 and 15 are arrested as 14-year-old schoolboy fights for life after being repeatedly stabbed in frenzied north London knife attack as capital’s crime wave continues
Two boys have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a 14-year-old boy was left fighting for his life after being stabbed in the middle of a north London street.
The victim was found with multiple wounds after the frenzied day time attack in Islington before being flown to an east London hospital by air ambulance.
The suspects, aged 14 and 15, were held at addresses in north London in the early hours of Monday morning, the Metropolitan Police said.
An 11-year-old boy was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder but after further inquiries he was de-arrested and released, according to police.
It comes as officers have also renewed an appeal over a murder in Bermondsey last month as a wave of knife crime continues to plague the city.
Police and London’s Air Ambulance attended and found the wounded youngster.
A crime scene is in place and the boy’s family is by his side in hospital where he is in a ‘serious but stable’ condition, police said.
Detectives are keeping an open mind as to a motive of the attack, the force added.
Shopkeeper Abdullah Ozcelik, who works nearby, said: ‘These people are just little children. It should be unbelievable. It should not happen to anyone.’
Anyone who witnessed this incident but has not yet spoken with police is asked to call Central North Command Unit quoting reference CAD7206/1JUL or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Tonight’s bloodbath comes as the crime-ridden capital experiences a surge in stabbings.
There have been 81 killings in London this year, many of them stabbings, and at one point the capital’s murder rate was higher than that of New York.
Officers are returning to the scene of the Bermondsey crime today to appeal for witnesses to come forward over the death of Joshua Boadu, 23.
Mr Boadu, known as SJ, was found stabbed at a property on June 11 and was taken to hospital, where he died of his wounds a week later.
Detective Inspector Ian Titterrell, who is leading the investigation, said: ‘At this stage, we believe an altercation involving a group of males began outside Helen Taylor House in Linsey Street. SJ then took shelter at an address on Lucey Way after being attacked.
‘We know there were a large number of people in the vicinity at the time of the attack and I am appealing for anyone with information to get in touch. Any information will be treated with the strictest of confidence.’
Speaking to the Evening Standard shortly after his death, Mr Boadu’s father Frank said: ‘He was a wonderful and caring boy. We believed there was hope and that he could pull through.
‘He was a good family person, not involved in gangs or anything like that. He had so many friends who came to the vigil, he was extremely well liked.
‘The violence on London’s streets must end. I don’t know why my son would be stabbed, we have no idea.’
Anyone with information is asked to contact the incident room on 020 8721 4005 or via 101 quoting reference 6365/11Jun.
That figure has surpassed last year when there was a total of 80 fatal stabbings in the capital – the most in almost a decade.
Official figures show that 2017 was the worst year for knife deaths among young people since at least 2002.
Forty-six people aged 25 or under were stabbed to death in London, up by 21 compared with the previous year, according to police figures.
Scotland Yard published figures earlier this month showing that only one in ten knife robberies and fewer than a quarter of violent crimes involving a bladed weapon were solved in London last year.
Britain’s knife crime epidemic has also spread to the Home Counties, with stabbings now more likely in Bedfordshire than in Merseyside.
Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Warwickshire, Norfolk and north Wales’ rates of knife crime have all increased by more than 100 per cent in the past three years.
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