Stabbings of 15- and 17-year-old bring capital’s homicide toll to 115 this yearTributes paid to two boys killed in London within 24 hoursTributes have been paid to two teenagers who were fatally stabbed on the streets of London within 24 hours. Purple flowers were laid near Clapham South tube station in memory of a 17-year-old killed there on Friday just after 4.30pm. The day before, 15-year-old Jay Hughes was killed in a “premeditated attack” near the Morley’s chicken shop in Bellingham, south-east London, at about 5.20pm. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said the teenagers’ deaths were “a terrible waste of young lives”, as he offered his condolences to the families. The Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, said on Friday that stretched forces must prioritise serious violence and drug gangs rather than non-criminal acts of misogyny.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2018 12:09 UTC