Police working at the scene in Battersea (Picture: Maisie Bishop)

More details have emerged about an alleged murder of a teenage cyclist, stabbed to death in London in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The 17-year-old was chased by a gang of men wearing balaclavas and armed with what looked like machetes or large knives, witnesses said.

He tried to escape on his bike, but was ‘stabbed multiple times and left to die’ on the bonnet of a car in a housing estate in Battersea.

Neighbours were woken by the teen screaming ‘Help me, I’m dying,’ the Evening Standard reported.


The teenager was stabbed to death in the early hours of this morning (Picture: Google)

Emergency services were called to Ingrave Street at 1.25am and the boy was taken to hospital, but pronounced dead shortly before 3am.

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Police launched a murder investigation. Nobody has yet been arrested.



Although formal identification is yet to take place, officers believe they know the name of the victim and his next of kin have been informed.

He is the fourth teenager to be murdered in London in this month alone, and the eighth in 2017.

‘It’s terrifying. My kid is the same age, there’s been so many murders around here recently,’ a mother laying flowers told the paper.

The Met Police have since launched a murder investigation (Picture: Maisie Bishop)

One neighbour, 45, said he saw what happened: ‘There were about six of them, they jumped out of the car and started chasing him immediately.’

Met Police detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating and a post-mortem date is yet to be set.

They said enquiries continue.

Anyone with information is asked to call the incident room at Lewisham via 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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