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Explain from Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lawry, who is in rate of policing for Greenwich, following the deadly stabbing of a 15-yr-aged boy.
“I’m very sad to say that we have launched a murder investigation following the stabbing of a teenager last night, Sunday 22 September, in Greenwich.
“Police had been called at about 6.35pm to experiences of a disturbance on Eglinton Road in the Woolwich assert.
“Our officers attended and found a 15-year-old boy with a stab injury. Despite the efforts of officers and paramedics from the London Ambulance Service, sadly he died a short time later.
“His family maintain been informed and are being supported by specialist officers from the Met.
“Once again we have had to tell a child’s family that their loved one has been killed in an act of violence using a knife. Our thoughts are with them as they struggle to comprehend what has happened.
“The truth that a 15-yr-aged teenager, who had his total existence before him, has been taken from his family in this kind, is a stark and sobering reminder of the threat of ‘zombie-vogue’ knives. We are dedicated to doing everything in our energy to taking these weapons off our streets.
“We know that this murder will also send shockwaves throughout the community and I understand the genuine concern this will create. We share those concerns.
“You might perchance perchance perchance perchance additionally keep a question to to sign your local officers in the assert over the coming days. Please refer to them at the same time as you happen to might perchance perchance perchance additionally maintain any questions or want any toughen or advice.
“Local teams are working closely with the specialist homicide detectives so that we can establish exactly what happened as quickly as possible. Enquiries continue at pace today.
“We wish your encourage to find answers the sufferer’s family desperately wants. Manufacture you might perchance perchance additionally maintain any information that might perchance additionally encourage our detectives? Even the smallest detail might perchance perchance perchance additionally explain crucial.
“Were you in the area of Eglinton Road on Sunday evening around 6.30pm? Did you see anyone running from the area?
“Whereas you might perchance perchance additionally presumably be living in the assert keep you might perchance perchance additionally maintain any CCTV, doorbell cameras or plod cam photos? Now we maintain an online portal the put you might perchance perchance perchance presumably add pictures or video photos.
“If you have useful information, please call us on 020 8721 4005 quoting Operation Baghaze.
“Alternatively, at the same time as you happen to might perchance perchance perchance additionally presumably be now not elated speaking to the police you might perchance perchance perchance presumably contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. They would perchance additionally now not fragment your private miniature print with the police.”
