Shock as boy, 15, is killed in mass brawl

A BOy of 15 was stabbed to death when a mass brawl broke out as around 200 teenagers were leaving a 16th birthday party at a community centre.

The boy, named locally as Jordan douherty, was knifed after a large group of youths were turned away from the party because the venue was at capacity.

Shocked friends of the victim were heard screaming and crying, ‘They’ve killed my best friend,’ after the boy collapsed around 9pm on Saturday.

Police and paramedics arrived to find up to 200 teenagers running and screaming in panic as the 15-year-old lay in the street in romford, east London. One resident, who gave her name only as ellie, said: ‘There were two or three boys screaming, “he’s not moving, he’s dead”.

‘There was a big group on the corner with just the boy on the floor. There were paramedics doing shocks and CPr on him for quite a while. After he was just lying there with a white sheet over him, it was covered in blood.’

Another neighbour, who gave her name only as Carol, said: ‘I heard a lad crying down the phone “he’s dead, he’s dead”. he was laying down in the road, there was a lot of blood. The police were working on him, they tried their damndest with that boy. nobody should die like that.’

Three teenage boys were arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.

Following the death, London mayor Sadiq Khan said on Twitter: ‘These appalling crimes will not be tolerated.’