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Student, 17, with dreams of being a barrister was stabbed to death

Ayub Hassan – who had a brother, 9, and a sister, 11 – was stabbed to death by West Kensington tube station in London at around 2pm yesterday. He is seen in an undated image

A mother has revealed her agony as her son, a 17-year-old aspiring barrister, was knifed to death after what was said to be the fourth attempt on his life.

Ayub Hassan – who had a brother, 9, and a sister, 11 – was fatally stabbed by West Kensington tube station in London at around 2pm yesterday.

His mother, Siraad Aden, 38, collapsed when she heard that her son had been killed in London’s fifth knife murder in just seven days.

Later she told The Standard through tears at the family home on the White City estate in nearby Shepherd’s Bush: ‘He wasn’t only a son, he was my best friend. We want justice.’

After laying flowers at the scene, family friend Amina Osman said: ‘He had ambitions, he was looking forward to being a barrister. He was looking forward to being a grown-up man.

‘He was good with his words, he was very kind and handsome.’

But she said the fatal attack was ‘the fourth attempt on his life’, having previously been found unconscious in a park, run over and stabbed on another occasion.

An aunt, who did not want to be named, said the teenager was studying at Hammersmith College and, ‘as far as we know’, was not involved in gangs.

Forensic officers were searching drains near the crime scene last night and recovered what appeared to be a knife. Three men, aged 18, 17 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said today.

The number of fatal stabbings in London now stands at six in just seven days, while nationally 26 people have died this year.

A 37-year-old man who was stabbed in Soho early on Sunday morning was pronounced dead last night, bringing the number of knife murders in London to five in just one week.

Officers also announced today that a second man had been arrested on suspicion of murdering teenager Jodie Chesney, who was fatally stabbed in the back on Friday in a park in Harold Hill, east London.

The epidemic has sparked a frenzied political debate, with Chancellor Philip Hammond facing criticism yesterday for ignoring police demands to reverse cuts imposed under austerity measures and refocus their resources instead.

Three men, aged 18, 17 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said today. Pictured: The road in West Kensington where Mr Hassan was stabbed yesterday

Family friend Amina Osman arrives today to lay flowers near the police cordon on Lanfrey Place where Mr Hassan died yesterday

Mrs Osman leaves adds to the bouquets of flowers that are piling up in Lanfrey Place in memory of Mr Hassan, who she said was ‘ambitious and handsome’

A Little Waitrose store is located just behind the police cordon, where a forensic tent remained in place today

The epidemic of 26 knife murders in 2019 has sparked a frenzied political debate, with Chancellor Philip Hammond facing criticism yesterday for ignoring police demands to reverse cuts imposed under austerity measures

Mr Hassan was brutally knifed in the chest near West Kensington tube station in west London at around 2.15pm yesterday. An air ambulance took Mr Hassan to hospital from the scene in Lanfrey Place but he died a short time later.

Yousef Bahadory, who owns a dry cleaners close by, said he did not see the stabbing but was alerted to it by a friend who works next to his business.

He said there were about five boys who were around 19 or younger messing around and shouting outside his shop when one of them was pushed into his window, and he asked them to leave.

The group then went into a coffee shop to have something to eat before leaving and it was after this that he was told there had been a stabbing.

‘When everything had finished the guy ran away, I did not see the knife – within a minute he had disappeared,’ he said.

‘The boy was on the floor. There was so much blood. Someone went to get a doctor from the surgery nearby and she was pumping his chest.’

Mr Hassan (pictured) hoped to go into a career in law, according to his family

Neighbour Rosie Hayes was one of the first people on the scene, and said there had been no noise or disturbance beforehand.

‘I was in my house and my cousin was leaving, and we noticed there was a group of four guys and they were maybe drunk – there was something going on but we didn’t understand anyone was injured at that stage,’ she said.

‘She left (my cousin) and they started calling for help… so then my neighbour and I have both came out of our houses at the same time and the group asked us for help.

‘So we went over to assist… we stayed with them until a wonderful nurse turned up and she was amazing at taking control of the situation until the paramedics arrived.’

Mrs Hayes said there were three boys with the victim who were in their late teens.

‘They were upset and maybe a little bit aggressive too,’ Mrs Hayes added. ‘There was obviously a bit of an argument going on maybe. They were out of their depth, they didn’t know how to deal with the situation.’

She said the boy who had been stabbed was still conscious, adding: ‘We just did everything we could to make him comfortable. So another neighbour was wonderful and went and got a pillow for his head, I’d already got a towel… we just tried to keep him warm and give the nurse assistance.’

Mrs Hayes said it looked like the boy had been stabbed in the chest.

She added: ‘It is quite shocking, we live on a cul de sac and these things happen all over London now – when is it going to stop? There should be more respect for life.’

Chief Superintendent Rob Jones, from the Metropolitan Police, said: ‘I understand the devastating effect that this incident will have not only on the victim’s loved ones, but also on the wider community.

‘Our thoughts are with the victim’s family at this sad time. There will be a heightened visible police presence in the area and local officers will also be supported by central specialist units to prevent any potential further incidents.’

Woman pay their respects to Mr Hassan in West Kensington as yet another London community is hit by a fatal stabbing

Police activity this morning in Lanfrey Place. Police chiefs have asked for more resources to deal with the wave of violence

A Met Police officer walks past a forensic tent over the spot where Mr Hassan was stabbed as forensic specialists examine the scene

Flowers left in Lanfrey Place in West Kensington in memory of Mr Hassan, whose family called him ‘a wonderful boy’

Scotland Yard also revealed yesterday that a 37-year-old man attacked in Soho on Sunday morning had died of his stab wounds.

He died on Wednesday evening following the attack in Romilly Street in London’s West End at around 6am on Sunday.

Bloodshed Britain: The 24 murders in London so far this year

January 1: Charlotte Huggins, 33, is believed to have been the first homicide victim in London in 2019. She was stabbed in Camberwell, south-east London, in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

January 1: Later that day, security guard Tudor Simionov, also 33, was stabbed to death at about 5.30am as he tried to prevent gatecrashers storming a private party in Park Lane.

January 4: Simbiso Aretha Moula, 39, was found murdered in her home in Rainham, east London. Her husband, Garikayi Moula, was found hanged. Police were not seeking anyone else in connection with the murder.

January 5: Sarah Ashraf, 35, was found dead in a home in the Isle of Dogs, east London. A 32-year-old man was charged with murder.

January 8: Jaden Moodie, 14, was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death in Leyton, east London.

January 11: Asma Begum, 31, was found with a neck injury in a property City Island Way, Tower Hamlets. A 46-year-old man was charged with murder.

January 27: Kamil Malysz, 34, was found stabbed to death in a shared house in Acton, west London.

January 29: Nedim Bilgin, 17, was the victim of a knife attack in Caledonian Road, Islington, north London.

February 3: A 46-year-old man was found dead at a medical facility in Highgate, north London. A 21-year-old was charged with murder.

February 5: Lejean Richards, 19, was fatally stabbed in Battersea.

February 10: A man, believed to be in his 30s, was found fatally stabbed in East Dulwich, south-east London.

February 18: Bright Akinleye dies after walking into a hotel reception in Camden with stab wounds.

February 19: Brian Wieland, 69, found dead with multiple head injuries at his home in Chingford, east London.

February 21: Glendon Spence, 23, was killed outside a youth club in Brixton, south London. Police have charged two 17-year-olds with murder.

February 22: Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, 19, was murdered in Wood Green, Haringey. Police said that he and a another man, aged 20, were both found with stab wounds.

February 25: Spaniard David Lopez-Fernandez, 38, was pronounced dead after being found with stab wounds at an address in Globe Road in Tower Hamlets, east London. A 36-year-old man was charged with murder.

February 26: Che Morrison, 20, died after being stabbed to death outside Ilford station in east London.

March 1: Girl scout Jodie Chesney, 17, was stabbed to death in a Romford park.

March 2: A 50-year-old was found dead with fatal knife injuries at a property in Hendon, north-west London. A 54-year-old man was arrested at the scene.

March 2: A baby girl, aged three months, was found dead at a residential address in Croydon. A 40-year-old woman has been charged with murder.

March 6: Spanish victim David Martinez, 26, was stabbed to death in Leyton.

March 6: A 37-year-old man stabbed in Soho three days earlier died in hospital.

March 6: Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, was found buried in a shallow grave near her home in Kew.

March 7: Ayub Hassan was fatally stabbed in the chest near West Kensington Underground station.

Joe Gynane, 34, of no fixed address, has been charged with attempted murder in relation to the attack.

It brings the total to five stabbing victims in London in the space of a week, after teenager Jodie Chesney, Spanish national David Martinez and 50-year-old Elize Stevens were knifed to death in the last seven days.

Girl scout Ms Chesney, 17, was stabbed to death while playing music with friends in a Romford park on Friday night.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was ‘filled with anger’ and ‘devastated’ by the killing of Ms Chesney.

‘My thoughts are with her loved ones.

‘It fills me with anger that violent criminals are targeting young Londoners with their whole lives before them. I encourage anyone with information to contact the police,’ he said.

On Saturday, 17-year-old Yousef Makki died after a knife attack in the village of Hale Barns, Greater Manchester.

Another 17-year-old has been charged with his murder.

Spanish national David Martinez was stabbed to death after he was chased in Leyton, east London, on Wednesday.

In addition the body of French woman Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, was discovered in a shallow grave near her home in west London late on Wednesday night.

A total of 24 murder probes have now been launched in London this year, including 12 in the last 17 days.

Following the Soho stabbing a murder investigation has now commenced which is being led by Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin.

A 34-year-old man was charged on Monday, March 4 with two counts of attempted murder, in relation to this incident along with another stabbing on the same day, of a teenager which occurred in University Street, WC1.

The charge for attempted murder willl be subject to a review by the CPS.

A 41-year-old woman who was arrested remains released under investigation.

Later the same morning police were called to a stabbing on University Street in Camden, where a 16-year-old boy was taken to hospital with ‘life-threatening’ injuries.

On Tuesday Che Morrison was knifed after a fight broke out just before 8.50pm. Witnesses said he was ‘slashed in the face’ during the attack.

Nineteen-year-old Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck was also fatally stabbed by a gang riding bikes in Wood Green, north London, last week.

He was chased into a hair salon by men armed with a firearm, knives and a samurai sword on February 22 and slaughtered in front of children.

A day earlier, a 23-year-old man – Glendon Spence – was stabbed to death in Brixton, south London, at a youth club which had children as young as seven inside.

Due to the spate of violence, Met officers are out in force carrying out a series of stop and searches around the capital yesterday.

The spate of violence has sparked a renewed political focus on knife crime.

Yesterday, London Mayor Sadiq Khan was criticised after he rolled his eyes and said ‘I’ve done all I can’ as he was grilled over his failure to tackle London’s knife crime epidemic – four years after promising to do ‘everything in my power’ to cut stop and search.

The Mayor of London made the vow in 2015 while still on the campaign trail, claiming the tactic was ‘overused’ and undermined public confidence in the police.

In his Sky News interview today, Mr Khan said he had done ‘as much as I am allowed to do under the law’ to curb knife crime by raising council tax three years in a row and using money from business rates to invest in policing and youth services.

Instead, he insisted cuts in central government funding had left him hamstrung. ‘The investment we are putting in doesn’t fill the massive hole left by the Government,’ he said in an interview with Sky News. Around 75 percent of his police budget comes from central government, with the rest coming from council tax and business rates.

At this point Sky’s Sarah-Jane Mee interrupted, saying: ‘You keep shifting it onto central government.’ Mr Khan then rolled his eyes in frustration, before the presenter asked why he was not ‘taking personal responsibility’ for the issue.

Asked what he was doing to combat the epidemic, Mr Khan said: ‘We are doing a number of things, City Hall is funding a violent crime task force; 300 officers who are targeting high knife crime areas.

‘Over the course of the first eight months, they’ve made over 3,000 arrests leading to charges and taken more than 1,000 knifes and offensive weapons off the streets.

‘The point I make is the causes of the increase in violent crime are complex, deep-seated problems.

‘I’m not excusing criminality, poverty, social alienation, inequality, mental health issues, but these are made far worse by the massive cuts we’ve had in police numbers and preventative services.

‘That is why we are lobbying the Prime Minister to step up and take a lead on this issue.’

Police recover what appears to be a knife after searching a drain near Lanfrey Place. It is not known if the knife in the picture was connected to the attack

A forensic officer walks towards a van as police examine the crime scene in West Kensington

Police search a drain near to Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, London, where Mr Hassan was stabbed on Thursday

An aerial view of the area in West Kensington where Mr Hassan died shortly after 2pm

Bloodied garments are seen as forensic teams work at the scene of a stabbing in West Kensington on yesterday afternoon

Composite picture of some of the people who have lost their lives to knife crime this year. Top row, from left: Tudor Simionov, Jaden Moodie, Nedim Bilgin, Lejean Richards, Dennis Anderson. Middle row, from left: Patrick Hill, Sidali Mohamed, Bright Akinleye, Abdullah Muhammad, Glendon Spence. Bottom row, from left: Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, Hazrat Umar, Che Morrison, Jodie Chesney, Yousef Ghaleb Makki

Mr Khan also faced criticism for jetting off on holiday with his wife to Marrakech on Saturday, hours after the unprovoked murder of 17-year-old girl scout Jodie Chesney – and fatal stabbing of A* student Yousef Makki – shocked Britain.

It sparked a huge debate on how to tackle the knife crisis gripping the UK’s streets, with Theresa May, Sajid Javid and police chiefs all weighing in on the ‘national emergency’.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid is calling for more money to tackle knife crime, while Theresa May and Met Commissioner Cressida Dick recently clashed over whether a reduction in officer numbers had fuelled the problem.

Meanwhile, Chancellor Philip Hammond has resisted calls for more funding by saying police should divert the resources they already had to the issue.

Mr Hammond said police forces need to move officers off ‘lower priority’ crime and onto knife violence.

He also suggested there would be more money for public services if MPs voted for the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal.

Another area of debate has been around school exclusions, after Mr Khan joined six police and crime commissioners who wrote to the Prime Minister suggesting a ‘broken’ system was fuelling the violence.

The letter said that many of those committing offences have been excluded from school, and called for an end to unofficial ‘off-rolling’ – the practice of removing difficult pupils from registers to boost average exam results.

Figures show that permanent exclusions in England increased by 56% between 2013-14 and 2016-17.

There was a 40% rise in London and 62% rise in the West Midlands during that period, according to Department for Education data.

But Ofsted head Amanda Spielman said that it is the problems which lead to a pupil’s expulsion – rather than the decision to exclude them from school – which is more likely to explain later violence.

‘I don’t believe that exclusions are normally likely to be the root cause,’ Ms Spielman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

‘What seems more likely is that they are symptoms of the same underlying problems. When we look at permanent exclusions we find that most are the culmination of a long series of behaviour problems where schools have put great effort into helping children overcome their problems.’

The scene in West Kensington this afternoon (left and right) after reports that a teenager had been stabbed

Forensic police on the scene in Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, where a teenager was killed

Forensic officers as the crime scene near a West London tube station yesterday evening

Officers at the scene where police cordoned off an area outside cafe and convenience store

Forensics officers were seen outside the Coach and Horses pub in the Soho area of London after the stabbing on Sunday

Jodie Chesney (left) was stabbed in London on Friday while Yousef Makki (right) died after a knife attack in Hale Barns

Laureline Garcia-Bertaux (left) was found in a shallow grave while David Martinez (right) was stabbed to death after he was chased in Leyton

Any witnesses or anyone with any information is asked to call police on 101 or contact via Twitter @MetCC quoting CAD 4136/07MAR.

To give information anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org.

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