Police at the scene of the killing of a teenager in Battersea, southwest London JOHN STILLWELL/PAA teenager stabbed to death yards from the school Prince George attends was turning his life around after a stint in prison, his mother has said. Witnesses described seeing Lavern Joseph run from her flat screaming to where her son Lejean Richards lay as paramedics tried in vain to save his life. Mr Richards, 19, became the latest victim of the continued bloodshed in the capital when he was ambushed and stabbed in the chest near his home in Battersea, southwest London, last night. Mr Richards, who died about 500 yards from Thomas’s Battersea primary school where Prince George is a pupil, had recently been released from jail, a family friend said. He was working as a pizza delivery driver for Domino’s and was planning…

Source: The Times February 06, 2019 09:00 UTC