London mayor appeals for witnesses after knife violence across the city over the weekend

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The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has said he is deeply saddened after a series of stabbings in the capital over the weekend left one man dead and several others injured.

A 20-year-old was killed in Finsbury Park in the early hours of Saturday following reports of a fight. Police later arrested a 21-year-old, who had also been stabbed, on suspicion of murder.

In a separate incident near Tooting Bec tube station in south London, two men were stabbed during a fight at about 6pm on Saturday. Police said one of the men was left with injuries that were not life-threatening, while the condition of the other man was not known.

Less than half an hour later, paramedics were called to help a 14-year-old boy who had been stabbed in the leg in Walthamstow, east London.



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A second man died on Friday night after being seriously injured in an assault in Morden, south London, on Thursday. Police said the victim had been involved in a fight in the street.

A 31-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday and taken to a south London police station, where he remains in custody.

London has been rocked by a spike of stabbings and shootings, with more than 60 murder investigations launched by the Metropolitan police so far this year.



In an online post lamenting “another life unnecessarily lost to violent crime on our streets”, Khan appealed for witnesses to come forward, adding: “There is no honour in staying silent when you know something.”