Two teenage boys were stabbed to death within five hours on Thursday, as London’s murder rate continues to outpace last year’s tally.

Baptista Adjie, 15, was wearing his school uniform when he died in daylight outside a McDonald’s in Stratford, east London.

The victim, from Woolwich, southeast London, had called his mother to say he was on his way home minutes before he was attacked at 3.20pm, his family said.

Police believe Baptista may have been stabbed during a fight on a bus near the scene of his death.

A 15-year-old boy who was friends with him was also stabbed and remains in hospital in a stable condition.

On Friday night a 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of Baptista's murder after handing himself in at an east London police station.