Man killed by 3rd floor leap to flee raiders
Mum’s anguish as boy, 15, killed in capital’s 27th fatal knifing this year
THE mother of a 15-year-old boy killed in a stabbing sobbed at the scene: “It’s my son, it’s my son.”
Tashaun Jones became the latest young victim of the knife epidemic when he was murdered in Hackney, East London, on Wednesday night.
It was the 27th fatal stabbing in the capital so far this year. A boy of 16 was also wounded during what police said was “some sort of confrontation” between two groups of youths.
Tashaun was knifed four times in the chest at around 9pm. A witness revealed he comforted the boy. He said: “There was a pool of blood. He couldn’t talk, he gasped – I knew he had gone.”
Tashaun’s family and friends left floral tributes at the scene yesterday.
His grandfather said: “This is a difficult time, we are suffering.” A woman was heard to scream: “It’s my son.”
Police have made no arrests. The Mirror’s anti-knife crime campaign is calling for more police, a reverse to youth service cuts, knife awareness in schools and a knife crime tsar. People left flowers at the scene TERRIFIED Sheiku Adams A MAN died after leaping from his third-floor flat when masked men burst in, The Old Bailey heard.
The two shouted ‘“give us the f***ing bag” terrifying Sheiku Adams, 49.
Neil Allen allegedly jabbed a knife at Mr Adams and his wife as Jamie Cohen ransacked the flat in Gospel Oak, North London, in October.
Mr Adams was taken to hospital but died from a brain injury.
Allen, 26, Cohen, 34, alleged getaway driver Nicola Green, 32, and Stephanie Haughton, 34, all from Wolverhampton, deny manslaughter.
Cohen, Haughton and Green also deny aggravated burglary.
The trial continues.