Yard to probe two more fatal stabbings
SCOTLAND Yard’s hard-pressed murder squads are investigating two more stabbings in London.
A man and a woman died in separate horrors within 40 minutes on Sunday evening.
Their deaths take the number of murder inquiries launched in the capital this year to 59.
Paramedics rushed a 26-year-old man – named locally as Raul Nicolaie – to hospital after he was found with stab wounds in a flat at Colindale, north London.
Doctors were unable to save him and he died later that night.
A woman was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.
Less than an hour later, a woman in her 30s was stabbed to death at a house in Brixton, south London.
Police arrested a man in his 20s at the property on suspicion of murder. It is understood the suspect was known to the victim in each case.
Metropolitan Police homicide squads have been under enormous pressure following the recent spate of murders.
Earlier this month, the Yard asked City of London Police to investigate the death of a man following a fight outside a betting shop in Hackney, east London.
Met Commissioner Cressida Dick recently acknowledged the increased workload on murder squad detectives.
She said: “They are very, very busy. They are well-staffed. I am very proud of them.”
There have been arrests in the vast majority of murder inquiries.
Suspects have been charged in more than half of all cases, police said. Police attend the second murder scene in Brixton where a woman died