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Schoolboy stabbed in gang street attack
As blows fell, robbers shouted where they were from
A BOY of 12 stabbed during a robbery has revealed his attackers shouted out where they were from as they delivered the blows.
Moses Miesi was in Camden Town with his cousin on Saturday afternoon when he was set upon by about 15 youths in Ferdinand Street.
The teenagers, who demanded his phone, pushed him to the ground and hit him over the head with a heavy bag before knifing him in the hip.
After the youths were scared off by a passer-by, Moses ran bleeding along Chalk Farm Road. He did not realise the extent of his injuries until people called for him to stop. He said: “People were shouting at me: ‘You’re bleeding, you’re bleeding’.”
Moses was taken to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where he was detained overnight amid fears that the blade – nearly six inches long – could have reached his kidney.
Describing his ordeal, Moses said: “I gave them my phone and tried to run. Somebody tripped me up. They put me against the floor and whacked a bag with something inside it at my head. I just closed my eyes. That’s when they stabbed me but I didn’t know. When they started hitting me one shouted ‘Kilburn’ and one of them shouted ‘east’.”
His mother Nzuzi said: “It’s like a goal. When you hit someone then you shout your area.”
Mrs Miesi, 31, is calling for police to search youngsters who “look suspicious”. She said: “I’m a mother. If I heard my son was searched for no reason I wouldn’t like it but if police think that child looks suspicious they should search him.”
She added: “My son was very lucky.”
Mrs Miesi wants to help others campaigning against knife crime and has appealed for mothers to contact her through the New Journal.
Moses is now too scared to leave his Bloomsbury home alone, and has taken time off school to recuperate.
A 14-year-old was arrested in Clapton, east London, the day after the attack. He has been bailed to appear again before police at the beginning of May. |
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