Schoolgirl shot dead in drive-by attack
A 17-YEAR-OLD girl was shot dead in a drive-by attack while she was sitting chatting with friends.
Tanesha Melbourne was gunned down in Tottenham, north London, shortly before 9.30pm on Monday, apparently a tragic casualty of a gang war.
Her mother, who watched her daughter die, laid flowers at the scene yesterday, with a card reading: “To my baby Nesha. I’m gonna miss you so much, you’re always gonna be with me everywhere I go.” It was signed “Love Mummy”.
Schoolfriend Candice Hassan, 17, said Tanesha was “in the wrong place at the wrong time”. A woman who knew the murdered girl said the victim was “just chilling with her friends” when she was shot from a car for “no reason at all”.
So far this year, the Metropolitan Police has launched 47 murder inquiries – eight in January, 15 in February, 22 in March and two this month.
The March figure marked a new high
– the two previous peaks were in April 2010 when there were 16 murders, and June 2017 when there were 19. In the whole of last year, there were 130 murders in London.
The number of killings reached a peak around last June.