Law student, 18, is London’s 59th murder victim this year

AN ASPIRING lawyer was stabbed to death outside his house as he walked home from a football match in the 59th murder in London this year.

Queen Mary University student Sami Sidhom, 18, was stabbed in the back by a gang who fled in two cars, witnesses said.

Neighbours tried to stem the bleeding using bath towels, but Sami died just yards from the front door of the house he shared with his father and grandmother in Forest Gate, East London, at 11.30pm on Monday.

He is the 14th teenager to be murdered in the capital since Christmas and the fourth in the last fortnight.

West Ham season ticket holder Sami, who has Egyptian heritage but was born in the UK, was on his way home from watching his team score a last-minute equaliser against Stoke City at the London Stadium.

Friends laying flowers outside his home said they had no idea why a ‘quiet, humble and smart’ teenager who had never been involved with gangs or violence would be attacked, speculating that it may have been a case of mistaken identity.

One even suggested the stabbing could have been motivated by jealousy over the Audi A4 the history and law student had bought with inheritance from his grandfather last year. The friend said: ‘He was very low key and so modest. He didn’t like pictures and didn’t have any social media.’

Another friend added that Sami spent a lot of his time caring for his grandmother with his father, a software developer.

Neighbours told how they tried to save the teenager. One said he and his partner rushed out of their house when they heard Sami’s screams. ‘I saw four guys with two cars,’ he said. ‘I shouted at them and then they got into the cars and raced off.

‘There was so much blood – in the street and down the back of his legs. It all happened so quickly. There were about a dozen of us in the street trying to save him, but there was nothing more we could do.’ The Met Police said no arrests had been made.