A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is fighting for his life after being stabbed in South London today. Three males have been arrested after the teenager was stabbed Lambeth as the capital’s bloodbath surges on. He was rushed to hospital after being knifed at 1.30pm on Millbrook Road. The teen’s injuries are believed to be life-threatening, police said. […]
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is fighting for his life after being stabbed in South London today.
Three males have been arrested after the teenager was stabbed Lambeth as the capital’s bloodbath surges on.
He was rushed to hospital after being knifed at 1.30pm on Millbrook Road.
The teen’s injuries are believed to be life-threatening, police said.
Cops beefed up patrols and imposed stop and search Section 60 powers in the area following today’s stabbing.
It comes on the day cops launched a murder inquiry after a 46-year-old woman was found strangled to death in Lewisham, South East London.
Neighbours claimed they noticed a “strange odour” coming from Zoe Orton’s Deptford flat before cops found her body on Monday.
There have been at least 117 killings in the capital so far in 2019, dozens of them fatal stabbings.
This month alone, a talented 15-year-old footballer was stabbed to death in his school uniform on a day of carnage in the capital.
Baptista Adjei was killed in Stratford, East London, on the same day an 18-year-old male was fatally knifed in South East London.
Yesterday, a man was charged with attempted murder after a female police officer was attacked with a knife in Clapham South.
Knife crime has risen by seven per cent in a year to hit an all-time high, official figures show.
Police recorded 44,076 incidents involving knives or sharp instruments in England and Wales in the 12 months to June.
Almost half of these were stabbings while 43 per cent were robberies.
Office for National Statistics figures also showed that all crimes recorded by police rose by seven per cent too, to more than six million.
Violent crimes rose by 15 per cent to almost 1.7million while homicides fell by five per cent, from 719 to 681.
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