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Four boys arrested after man stabbed to death in London North London stabbing: four boys arrested after row over access to party
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Four boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 52-year-old man was stabbed to death following a “verbal altercation” with a group of youngsters, Scotland Yard said. Four boys, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 52-year-old man was stabbed to death in north London when a row over access to a party “escalated into a shocking act of violence”.
Police were called to a residential address in The Broadway, Edmonton, north London, at around 7.50pm on Sunday night following reports of a stabbing. Police said a group of boys were involved in what was initially described as a “minor verbal altercation” with the victim as he returned home with a female partner to a block of flats in The Broadway, Enfield, just before 8pm on Sunday night.
Scotland Yard said they believed the victim had been involved in a verbal altercation with a group of boys, aged in their mid-teens, as he attempted to gain entry into the block of flats. Police suggested the boys were trying to gate-crash a party at another address in the block.
He was followed by two of the males and stabbed, police said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene just after 8.30pm after police and London Ambulance had responded to reports of a stabbing.
The suspects, all believed to be aged 13 and 14, remain in custody at a north London police station. The victim, who has yet to be formally identified, was stabbed after being followed into the block by two individuals.
DCI Neale Baldock, who is leading the murder investigation, said: “There was a supervised party taking place at another address within the block and the group of males were trying to gain access to this.”
Baldock added: “What started as a minor verbal altercation has escalated into a shocking act of violence.”
He said the victim and his attackers did not know each other.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the incident room on 0208 345 1570 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.