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In the past four months, 12 teenagers have been stabbed to death in the capital, and there are fears the killings could reignite the gang wars that have plagued the city during Sadiq Khan s term as London Mayor.
Barring a political earthquake, voters are set to give the Labour politician another five years in office at the local elections this week.
Londoners cite crime as their No 1 concern but Mr Khan s critics accuse him of being preoccupied with traffic-calming measures and crippling increases to the Congestion Charge.
Police said members of the public and officers attempted first aid but the 21-year-old died at the scene. A murder probe has now been launched
19:29 EDT, 1 May 2021
A memorial of candles and flowers still lies near the scene of the latest atrocity in London s violent crime wave.
The killing of teenager Junior Jah in the borough of Newham happened just a stone s throw from Mayor Sadiq Khan s new City Hall – leaving those in the area too terrified to leave their own homes.
The 18-year-old was killed just four years after his brother Ahmed, 21, was stabbed to death in the same area as he bought a soft drink.
The killing of teenager Junior Jah in the borough of Newham happened just a stone s throw from Mayor Sadiq Khan s new City Hall – leaving those in the area too terrified to leave their own homes
The shooting and stabbing of a teenager in broad daylight on a street in Canning Town is just the latest chapter of what has become Britain’s most violent gangland feud
Spate of London knife crimes worry students, Hannah Sawyer, JAGs
A Statista graph showing the numbers of murders recorded in London between April 2010 to March 2020. A recent spike in knife crimes in London is causing fear in teenagers of walking home. On the 26th April, yet another teenager was fatally stabbed in Newham. The 18-year-old, Junior Jah, became the 12th adolescent to die from a knife attack in London this year, killed only a mile away from the spot at which another teenager died days ago. Fares Maatou, who was stabbed on 23rd April, was only 14, making him the youngest teenager to be murdered this way in London in 2021.
06:32 EDT, 28 April 2021
A bloody gang war is feared to be on the brink of erupting after an 18-year-old stabbed to death in east London was revealed to be the brother of another knife victim killed four years earlier in the same neighbourhood.
Junior Jah died shortly before 2.45pm on Monday after being attacked in broad daylight just a few feet from his front door in Coolfin Road, Canning Town.
Back in 2017, his brother, Ahmed Jah, then 21, was also stabbed to death just 150 yards from the scene in Freemasons Road as he went to buy a soft drink from a convenience store.