The attack came at the end of a weekend of violence as a family pays tribute to mother, 39, who was stabbed in Ewell, Surrey

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A man has been stabbed to death in a street in south-east London.

The victim, believed to be aged in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene in Lordship Lane in East Dulwich shortly after 3am on Sunday.

No arrests have been made and Scotland Yard said inquiries into what happened were continuing. It said formal identification and a postmortem examination would take place in due course.

The local MP, Helen Hayes said she was “appalled” to learn of the stabbing. “Another family now devastated due to knife crime. This has to stop,” she said.

In a separate incident, a 23-year-old man was left in a critical condition after he was stabbed in Neasden, north-west London, on Saturday night.

A 29-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder, and a 24-year-old woman was detained on suspicion of assisting an offender.

London ambulance service and police were called shortly before 11pm to reports of a man stabbed in Cairnfield Avenue, NW2.

Police have charged a man with murder following the fatal stabbing of Aliny Mendes, 39, in Ewell on Friday afternoon.

Ricardo Godinho, 41, was charged on Sunday with killing Mendes, who was attacked on London Road at about 3pm on Friday, Surrey police said.

Godinho, of Kingston Road, Epsom, will appear in Staines magistrates’ court on Monday, the force added.

The family of a woman stabbed to death in Ewell, Surrey, have described her as a caring sister with a “wonderful heart”.

The 39-year-old’s sister said: “My sister was lovely, always thinking about everyone but mostly her children. She had a wonderful heart and there was no one else like her. She tried to help everyone she could. Everything she did was for the love of her children.”

In west London, four people aged 15, 16 and two aged 18 were arrested after a 16-year-old boy was found with a stab wound when police responded to reports of a fight in Central Avenue, Hayes, just before 4pm on Saturday.

The teenager was taken by air ambulance to a west London hospital, where his condition is said to be not life-threatening.