Four were stabbed to death in London in less than 12 hours yesterday including a 16-year-old boy.

The deaths see the capital's death toll for 2019 hit 143.

Police were desperately hunting for three killers after they forced their way into a house in Hounslow, west London, just before 11:30 am on Thursday and stabbed a young man to death in a targeted daylight murder.

The 35-year-old victim, Ebrima Cham, lovingly known as 'Brim' to friends and family, was left for dead at a home in a row of terraced houses in Hounslow.

A cordon remains in place after a man was stabbed in Mill Hill in North London and was later found fatally wounded in a car in nearby Scratchwood Park off the Barnet Bypass. London, December 20 2019.

Detectives said that a 44-year-old man had since been arrested on suspicion of murder and was being questioned by police but he was not one of the three who forced entry.

Detective Chief Inspector Noel McHugh is looking for witnesses.

'We know there were a lot of people in and around the Grove Road area at the time. If you were there, please think carefully about whether you saw or heard anything out of the ordinary and have the confidence to come forward to us.

'There is understandably a lot of chatter on the street about this incident and we need to make sure we divert this into evidence and find out exactly what led to Brim losing his life.'

Police at the crime scene in Bromley, Walthamstow on December 20. Police were called yesterday at 19:16 to reports of a fight. Officers attended and found a man aged in his 20's suffering stab injuries who was pronounced dead at the scene

Police at a home in Hounslow, west London, where a man was murdered on Thursday morning

A man in his 20s was killed while another, also in his 20s, was taken to hospital after a stabbing on Bromley Road in Walthamstow, north east London at 7:16pm. A 29-year-old man was arrested nearby on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.

And just before 8:30pm, a man in his 30s was found knifed to death near Barnet Bypass in an unrelated killing after police received reports of a fight. The man is believed to have been stabbed in Mill Hill in North London and was later found fatally wounded in a car in nearby Scratchwood Park off the Barnet Bypass. A man has been arrested.

The victim in Walthamstow, the 139th killing in London this year, died at the scene while the second man was rushed to hospital, also with knife wounds.

He is not believed to be in a life threatening condition.

The Barnet killing, number 140 in the capital in 2019, was near north London's Scratchwood Park.

Scotland Yard said in a statement that police were called at 8:27pm to Barnet Bypass by the London Ambulance Service to reports of a man in his 20s with stab injuries, who was then taken to hospital.

LONDON MURDERS 2019 Where the 143 murders across the capital so far this year have happened Charlotte Huggins, 32, Jan-01, Camberwell

Tudor Simionov, 33, Jan-01, Mayfair

Simbiso Aretha Moula, 39, Jan-04, Rainham

Sarah Ashraf, 35, Jan-06, Isle of Dogs

Jayden Moody, 14, Jan-07, Waltham Forest

Asma Begum, 31, Jan-11, Canning Town

Kamil Malysz, 34, Jan-27, Acton

Nedim Bilgin, 17, Jan-29, Islington

Carl Thorpe, 46, Feb-04, Highgate

Lejean Richards, 19, Feb-05, Battersea

Dennis Anderson, 39, Feb-10, East Dulwich

Bright Akinlele, 22, Feb-18, Camden

Brian Wieland, 69, Feb-19, Chingford

Glendon Spence, 23, Feb-21, Brixton

Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, 19, Feb-22, Wood Green

David Lopez-Fernandez, 38, Feb-25, Tower Hamlets

Che Morrison, 20, Feb-26, Ilford

Jodie Chesney, 17, Mar-01, Harold Hill

Elize Linda Stevens, 50, Mar-02, Hendon

Jolia Bogdan, 3 months, Mar-02, Croydon

Mohamed Elmi, 37, Mar-03, Soho

Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, Mar-06, Kew

David Martinez, 26, Mar-06, Leyton

Antoinette Donnegan, 52, Mar-07, Battersea

Ayub Hassan, 17, Mar-07, West Kensington

Florin Pitic, 20, Mar-10, Brent

Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, Mar-16, Fulham

Abdirashid Mohamoud, 17, Mar-22, Isleworth

Ravi Katharkamar, 54, Mar-24, Pinner

Ramane Richard Wiggan, 25, Mar-27, West Norwood

Zahir Visiter, 25, Mar-28, Regents Park

Gavin Garraway, 40, Mar-29, Clapham

Calvin Bungisa, 22, Apr-01, Kentish Town

Hubert Hall, 60, Apr-02, Walthamstow

Annabelle Lancaster, 22, Apr-07, Enfield

Noore Bashir Salad, 22, Apr-08, Manor Park

Gopinath Kasivisuwanathan, 27, Apr-16, Wembley

Steven Brown, 47, Apr-17, Stoke Newington

Meshach Williams, 21, Apr-23, Harlesden

Mihrican Mustafa, 38, Apr-26, Canning Town

Henriett Szucs, 34, Apr-26, Canning Town

Amy Parsons, 35, Apr-26, Whitechapel

Joshua White, 29, Apr-26, Hackney

Tashaun Aird, 15, May-01, Hackney

Constantin Sin, 51, May-05, Leytonstone

McCaulay Urugbezi-Edwards, 18, May-05, Southwark

Barrington Davis, 54, May-16, Lewisham

Vladimir Koudriavtsev, 69, May-23, Kensington

Tatiana Koudriavtsev, 68, May-23, Kensington

Iderval da Silva, 46, May-25, Battersea

Alimal Islam, 23, May-26, Tower Hamlets

Ismaila Ceesay, 33, May-28, Forest Gate

Steven Kennedy, 61, May-30, Plaistow

Graham Howe, 53, May-30, Harrow

Baris Kucuk, 33, Jun-01, Haringey

Adrian Murphy, 43, Jun-04, Battersea

Cheyon Evans, 18, Jun-14, Wandsworth

Eniola Aluko, 19, Jun-14, Plumstead

Gleb Stanislavovitch Zhebrovsky, 34, Jun-15, Tower Hamlets

Giedrius Juskauskas, 42, Jun-16, Stratford

Stepan Suslyk, 40, Jun-16, Notting Hill

David Bello-Monerville, 38, Jun-18, Barnet

Ionut Manea, 63, Jun-18, Ilford

Edward Simpson, 25, Jun-21, Feltham

Yusuf Mohamed, 18, Jun-26, Shepherds Bush

Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, Jun-29, Croydon

Riley Fauvrelle, 5 days, Jun-29, Croydon

Ian Taylor, 54, Jun-29, Lambeth

Fuad Habib, 28, Jun-29, Newham

Gary Blagrove, 44, Jun-29, Fulham

Amara Toure, 18, Jun-30, Southwark

Tesfa Campbell, 40, Jul-03, Wandsworth

Craig Walters (Craig Small), 32, Jul-05, Wembley

Amanda Gretton, 57, Jul-05, Blackheath

Grineo Daka, 27, Jul-07, Leyton

Kwasi Mensah-Ababio, 26, Jul-08, Wembley

Leo Marcus, 22, Jul-10, Kidbrooke

Boluwatife Oyewunmi, 22, Jul-11, Enfield

Kye Manning, 19, Jul-11, Croydon

Akbar Arezo, 64, Jul-12, Whitton

Layla Arezo, 74, Jul-12, Whitton

Aron Kato, 28, Jul-17, Ilford

Diane Dyer, 61, Jul-18, Beckenham

Abdullahi Hassan, 20, Jul-25, South Hampstead

Robert Komuro, 41, Jul-23, Hillingdon

Liam Dent, 25, Jul-26, Chessington

Alciveadis Mauredis, 60, Jul-31, Islington

Dorothy Woolmer, 89, Aug-03, Tottenham

Mohammed Shah Subhani, 27, Aug-05, Hounslow

Alex Smith, 16, Aug-12, Camden

Solomon Small, 18, Aug-15, Lambeth

Amrou Greenidge, 18, Aug-20, Fulham

Allan Isichei, 69, Aug-24, Southall

Santino Angelo Dymiter, 18, Aug-26, Newham

Lee Casey, 39, Aug-29, Brixton

Unnamed child, 15 months, Aug-27, Putney

Laura Rakstelyte, 31, Aug-29, Ilford

Perry Jordan-Brammer, 15, Aug-30, Tottenham

Sandra Samuels, 45, Aug-31, Hackney

Norman Bertran-Tavarez, 24, Sep-01, Southwark

Michael Irving, 15, Sep-03, Stratford

Unnamed man, 20s, Sep-08, Lewisham

Sahkira Mercedes Gwendolin Loseke, 20s, Sep-08, Chalk Farm

Wilson Alexandre Garcia Varela, 24, Sep-09, Kentish Town

Josiph Beker (Youssef al-Bayjani), 17, Sep-10, Edgware Road

Unnamed girl, 8 weeks, Sep-12, SE16

Assad Abdullah Yarow, 25, Sep-12, Camden

Omar Smith, 34, Sep-13, Lewisham

Unnamed girl, 16 months, Sep-13, Plaistow

Julio Gomes, 29, Sep-14, Edmonton

Mark McCann-Barrett, 33, Sep-17, Walthamstow

Serafima Meshaka, 58, Sep-18, Ealing

Sufi Osman, 22, Sep-23, Southall

Tashan Daniel, 20, Sep-24, Hillingdon

Osvaldo Carvalho, 22, Sep-24, Ealing

Arlene Williams, 46, Sep-28, Enfield

Baptista Adjie, 15, Oct-10, Stratford

Clinton Evbota, 18, Oct-10, Camberwell

Ben Lines, 20, Oct-13, Bexley

Zoe Orton, 46, Oct-21, Deptford

Beatrice Yankson, 59, Oct-26, Islington

James Amadu, 26, Oct-31, Enfield

Vladislavs Radionovs, 57, Nov-02, Ilford

Hakim Ishmael Daba Sillah, 18, Nov-07, Uxbridge

Mohammed Mirza, 19, Nov-19, Ilford

Iron Miah, 40, Nov-19, Whitechapel

Randy Skuse, 27, Nov-23, Whitechapel

Akeem Dylon Barnes, 24, Nov-24, Ilford

Mehran Heydari, 26, Nov-24, Ealing

Justin Bello, 38, Nov-25, Neasden

Jack Merritt, 25, Nov-29, London Bridge

Saskia Jones, 23, Nov-29, London Bridge

Exauce Ngimbi, 22, Dec-05, Hackney

Mohammed Abdullah Al Araimi, 20, Dec-06, Knightsbridge

Crossland Davis, 20, Dec-06, Greenwich

James O'Keefe, 47, Dec-09, Hornsey

Dmytro Balaban, 28, Dec-14, Brent

Viorel Stefan, 49, Dec-14, Dagenham

Albert Amofa, 33, Dec-15, Croydon

Ebrima Cham, 35, Dec-19, Hounslow

Unnamed man, 20s, Dec-19, Walthamstow

Unnamed man, 30s, Dec-19, Barnet

Unnamed boy, 16, Dec-19, Dagenham



The victim in Walthamstow, the 139th killing in London this year, died at the scene while the second man was rushed to hospital, also with knife wounds

Police searched a nearby car where they found another man in his 30s with stab wounds. He was treated at the scene but died a short time later.

A crime scene has been put in place and inquiries are ongoing to notify the dead man's next of kin. A post-mortem examination is due to take place.

Just over an hour later, at 9:44 pm an unnamed 16-year-old boy was found dead on Halbutt Street in Dagenham. A woman, 50, has been arrested and charged with murder.

Victim 138 was Dmytro Balaban, 28, who was also killed in Brent last Saturday. Volodymyr Hololvatskyi, 23, from Neasden was arrested by police in the early hours.

Hololvatskyi was charged with murder and was due to appear at Willesden Magistrates' Court.

It was a bloody night in London last Saturday, with two other violent incidents taking place, including one killing.

Police received reports of a fight in Brent before finding a man in his 30s with stab wounds. He died at the scene

Forensic investigators are at the scene of the stabbing in Brent where one man was killed and another injured

A 59-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found with fatal stab wounds in east London.

A woman was also found injured at the property in Dagenham, and was taken to hospital.

In Lewisham, police received reports of a shooting at 9.48pm on Brockley Road.

The 29-year-old man was taken to hospital. It is believed that his injuries were from a shotgun and are not life threatening.