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Teenager stabbed after ‘punch up’ on way home from college
A TEENAGE boy was being treated in hospital last night (Wednesday) after he was stabbed on his way home from college in King’s Cross.
The boy, who police said was 14 or 15, was stabbed once at around 4.45pm in Argyle Street, shortly after leaving Westminster Kingsway College in Gray’s Inn Road.
A Met spokesman said last night that the youth was “in serious but stable condition”.
Witnesses said there had been a gathering of teenagers at the junction of Argyle Street and Gray’s Inn Road before the incident.
“There are always kids from the college up and down the street about this time and there seemed to be a punch up among a few of them,” said a Gray’s Inn Road shopkeeper who witnessed the incident but asked not to be named.
“There was one copper then a few more turned up but it wasn’t a major thing, to be honest.”
No arrests had been made last night.
Before the stabbing, Camden’s senior police officer, Chief Supt Dominic Clout, had given an interview to the New Journal discussing the recent 36 per cent increase in serious youth violence in the borough.
Chief Supt Clout said: “The increase in youth violence is around knife-enabled crime. We have less of a problem with gang-related violence than some boroughs, but we do have after-school victims of knife robbery as a major challenge.
“We have got robbery cars out, we still have extra officers doing extra patrols around the schools, and those will not stop. We have diversion and engagement programmes – we had the biggest reduction in knife crime in London last year, but it is a challenge.”
Westminster Kingsway College principal Andy Wilson issued a statement following the stabbing: “The college has been extremely concerned to find out that one of our students was the victim of a stabbing away from the college on his way home this evening.
“Obviously our first concern is about his welfare and we are in touch with the hospital and his family to check on his progress.
“The college already works very closely with the Metropolitan Police and has a police officer based on the King’s Cross site. We will continue to work with the police in every way possible to ensure that all of our students are as safe on their journey to and from the college as they are when they are in the building.” |
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