Teen knifed to death near Prince George’s new primary school

A TEENAGER was hacked to death by a masked gang close to the school Prince George will attend.

The 17-year-old was heard shouting ‘help me, I’m dying’ after being ambushed on an estate in the early hours of Sunday.

The killing came just weeks after another young man was stabbed to death nearby amid growing concern at escalating knife crime in London. Both attacks took place just a few minutes’ walk from Thomas’s School in Battersea, which George will attend in September.

The latest victim was named by friends as Mohammed Hasan, a 17-year-old GCSE college student.

He was attacked by up to six people on the York Road estate in south London in what was said to have been a case of mistaken identity. Residents said he was chased down on his bicycle by a gang in a car. The attack took place in an area riven with gang tensions and was one of three knife killings in the capital at the weekend.

In Enfield, north London, Damien McLaughlin, 42, was stabbed to death by a hooded gang after stopping his van in the road. And a 60year-old man was found dead with stab wounds at a flat in Bow, east London. Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, who took office earlier this month, has already said tackling rising gun and knife crime is one of her top priorities.

Earlier this month the Met released deeply worrying figures showing knife crime is up 24 per cent in a year – 12,074 offences, compared with 9,742 in 2015/16.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Duncan Ball said: ‘We have to work with the community to educate teenagers about the dangers of carrying knives.’