Two men arrested in London after fatal Peckham Rye stabbing
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Version 0 of 1. Two men have been arrested after the death of a man who was stabbed in the chest in south-east London. The 26-year-old victim died on Friday afternoon following reports of an altercation in Peckham Rye. Video and pictures posted online showed four police cars and several officers at the scene, close to Peckham Rye rail and overground station, following the incident. Police said on Monday they had arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of murder and a 28-year-old man on suspicion of assisting an offender. DCI Dave Whellams said: “We believe the victim was involved in an altercation with another person prior to being stabbed. The incident drew a large crowd of onlookers and a number of members of the public were filming the incident on their phones. “I am appealing directly to any witnesses – and in particular any of those people who have recorded footage – to contact police as soon as possible.” The results of a post-mortem showed the victim had been stabbed in the chest and arm, police said. Next of kin have been informed, but officers are awaiting formal identification. Alim Komora told the Evening Standard he had known the victim, Bilal Kargbo, 26, since primary school. “There is nothing bad that I can say about him,” he said of Kargbo, who was originally from Sierra Leone. He became the sixth person to be fatally stabbed in London in a week. Meanwhile, a man has been charged with murder following a stabbing on a London bus. Archie Sheppard, 48, was found fatally injured on the top deck of a bus in Marylebone in the early hours of Friday morning after suffering a “violent and sustained” attack. Paramedics were called to the No 189 bus in Gloucester Place but Sheppard, from Neasden, north-west London, was pronounced dead at the scene. Scotland Yard said John Doherty, 38, had been charged with murder and two counts of possession of an offensive weapon. Doherty, from Fulham in west London, appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court on Monday. He was remanded in custody and will appear next at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. A man has been charged following another stabbing on Thursday at Dulwich Park in south-east London. A 31-year-old man, said to be an Italian national, was found at the scene with a stab wound to his head and police said he remained in a critical condition in hospital. Jermaine McDonald, 26, of no fixed address, is due to appear at Camberwell Green magistrates’ court on Tuesday charged with GBH, robbery, attempted robbery and possession of an offensive weapon. The other knife crime victims in the capital last week included a 24-year-old man who was stabbed in Wandsworth, south London, on Tuesday evening; and 17-year-old Mohammed Hasan, who was chased and hacked to death by a masked gang in Battersea, south London, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Damien McLaughlin, 42, of Cheshunt, was stabbed to death in Enfield, north London, on 22 April; and a 60-year-old man was found dead with stab wounds just after midnight on 24 April in Bow, east London. |