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Press Association 2021
London is heading for the highest annual number of teen homicides since 2008
Feuds waged on social media and bloody rivalries over the drugs trade are fuelling a rise in teen homicides in London, the lead for violence in Britain’s biggest police force has said.
Metropolitan Police Commander Alex Murray told the PA news agency that, while overall homicide figures in the English capital have dropped, the number of teen deaths has risen.
To date this year, there have been 75 homicides in London, of which 22 involved teenage victims, a proportion of 29%.
In 2020 there were 14 out of 127, which is 11%, and in 2019 there were 26 out of 150, which is 17%.