Three dead in 24 hours as man in his 20s is stabbed to death outside Harrods during another night of bloody violence across London
London has seen three killings in under 24 hours as the stabbings which have plagued the capital returned last night.
The first fatal attack unfolded in Hackney, when a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in a fight near a row of shops at 2.30pm yesterday afternoon.
Then overnight two more people were killed, the first in Knightsbridge, not far from Harrods, around 1am, when a man in his 20s was killed.
The third killing happened in a residential street in Greenwich around 3am, where another man was pronounced dead. His age has not been given.
The three attacks in quick succession are believed to have taken the city’s murder toll to 130 for the year.
Police outside Harrods this morning after a man in his 20s was stabbed to death last night
The road beside the world-famous store was cordoned off by police this morning
Police and paramedics were scrambled to Clarence Mews in Hackney at 2pm yesterday where they found the victim suffering knife wounds. He was pronounced dead at 2.33pm.
One man was arrested at the scene and is being held in custody on suspicion of murder.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘Police were called at 2.01pm on Thursday 5 December to reports of a stabbing in Clarence Mews, Hackney.
‘Officers, London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance attended and found a man seriously injured.
‘Despite their best efforts the man – believed to be aged in his 20s – and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 14:33hrs.
‘His next of kin are in the process of being informed. Formal identification awaits and a post-mortem examination will be held in due course.
‘One man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder – he remains in custody at a north London police station.’
Police enforce a cordon on in Hackney, east London – the crime scene of a grisly stabbing of a man in his 20s yesterday afternoon