14-yr-old boy stabbed to death in London bus

The incident comes after an 11-year-old girl was seriously injured in a stabbing in the busy Leicester Square area of London last August.

A 32-year-old man was later arrested.

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In September, a teenager was stabbed to death in the same area of Woolwich. Three young men have been charged and will face trial over the killing that the prosecutor described as “tit-for-tat violence with all the hallmarks of a turf war”.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called knife crime a “national crisis”.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wrote on X on Tuesday that his “thoughts are with the family, friends and wider community in Greenwich following the appalling fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old boy.”

Matthew Pennycook, the Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, said he was “deeply saddened that yet another young life has been lost in our community”.

Office for National Statistics data released in October said that knife crime in England and Wales was up four percent in the 12 months to June compared to the previous year.

It was still lower than pre-pandemic levels, however.