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Man recovering after stabbing
A 42 year-old man was recovering in hospital from stab wounds yesterday (Wednesday) after a clash in a crowded Camden Town street that police have privately linked with a drug deal gone wrong.
The man, a Camden Town resident, was allegedly knifed in Lyme Street at around 8.20pm on Tuesday and was found by ambulance crews outside Sainsbury’s on Camden Road.
The victim, a Gambian national, was reported to be in a stable condition yesterday and recovering well, correcting early reports that his wounds were life-threatening.
The stabbing happened in front of the headquarters of the British Transport Police.
No arrests have been made and detectives from Camden CID said it was too early to comment on the possible motivation for the attack.
A police spokesman said: “Police were called at 20:28 on Tuesday, June 2, to reports of a fight in Lyme Street, Camden Town, near the junction with Camden Road, NW1. Officers and London Ambulance Service attended and found a man suffering a stab wound.”
Residents of Lyme Street, a mix of white stucco terraces and grand Victorian town houses, have long complained of heroin and cannabis dealing spilling out from the heavily policed drugs market in Camden High Street.
This association may have fuelled speculation that the incident involved a dealer and a prospective customer – a line of enquiry that the police are looking into.
Lyme Street resident Muhammed Sakib said: “All the problems we have here are to do with drinking or with drugging. These things will happen unless the government changes the law. People say it is shocking to happen in daylight but the dealing and the drinking happens in daylight and people are not shocked.” |
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