Birmingham Bus Stabbing: Man arrested after Christina Edkins Murder

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Police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing to death 16-year-old Christina Edkins. Christina was traveling to school on a busy double-decker bus in Birmingham when she was attacked in what is suspected to be a random killing. Passengers, paramedics and police officers arrived at the scene around 7.30am and soon after died at the […]

Teenage girl organised schoolboy stabbing

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A 14-year-old girl decided her boyfriend would kill a schoolboy after they had disagreed over football, the Old Bailey heard. Her 16-year-old boyfriend went to a Brixton housing estate where he killed teenage footballer Junior Nkwelle. The exact reasoning for the row is unknown but prosecutor Jonathan Turner implied it was something “trivial” that caused […]

Teenager stabbed to death in south-east London

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A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Lee, south-east London. Emergency services were called to Burnt Ash Road on Saturday night where they found the teenager with multiple stab injuries. The teenager was taken to a south London hospital where he died, the Met Police said. The police have appealed for witnesses. A […]

London murder rate halved over 10 years

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London‘s murder rate has fallen steadily over the past decade, according to figures from the Metropolitan Police. There were 222 homicides in 2003, but the figure had dropped to 117 by last year. The latest available figures, from 1 April 2011 to 26 March this year, show 101 homicides being committed in the capital during that […]

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