London knife crime: Teenager charged with murder after boy, 16, stabbed to death in Yiewsley

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after another boy, also 16, became the 30th teenage homicide victim in London in 2021.

The Metropolitan Police said the suspect will appear in custody at Ealing Youth Court on Tuesday.

Officers attended reports of a boy suffering a puncture wound at Philpot’s Farm open space, close to Heather Lane, in Yiewsley, Hillingdon, west London, just after 7.30pm on Thursday.

London Ambulance Service paramedics were also at the scene, but the teenager was pronounced dead at around 8.25pm.

A post-mortem examination on Sunday gave the cause of death as stab wounds.

Formal identification has yet to take place, the force said.