13:00 EDT, 1 January 2021
A teenager was stabbed to death only hours into the New Year during an attack in Milton Keynes.
The 18-year-old suffered severe knife injuries in the attack which happened in a Buckinghamshire house in Walshs Manor, Stantonbury, shortly before 3am on New Year s Day.
It came just hours after a father in his 30s named Dod Paul Fletcher was pronounced dead at the scene following a separate stabbing attack in Rayleigh, Essex.
Police and paramedics found two men with stab injuries at the Milton Keynes incident.
Detectives said that they had arrested a 21-year-old suspect on suspicion of murder and he remained in police custody