The number of killings in London has dropped by a quarter in the last year, Scotland Yard has said.
Over the past 12 months (April 2018 - March 2019), there were 122 homicides recorded by the Metropolitan Police, with 32 fewer victims than the period before, not including nine killed in terrorist attacks in 2017.
Twenty-five people were killed in domestic incidents, 69 with a knife and 10 with a gun.
The majority of victims were male - a total of 83 compared with 37 women.
The largest number - 50 - were of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity, followed by white Europeans with 44.
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The data also showed a reduction in other types of violent crime in the capital.
Knife-related injuries among under-25s reduced by 15%, with 311 fewer victims.
Knife crime with injury across all ages was down by 10% and gun crime by 6.8%.
Scotland Yard said the drop from 2,079 to 1,768 youths injured in stabbings was "extremely encouraging".
Moped-enabled crime dropped by more than half - 52.3% - to 11,390, the figures showed.
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But knife crimes, including possession of a blade, saw a slight increase of just over 0.5% to 14,843.
The figures come less than a day after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Hackney.
Police were called to the scene at 8.54pm yesterday where they found a teenager with stab injuries.
Emergency services were unable to save him.
A 16-year-old boy was found stabbed nearby but his injuries were not life threatening.
