One of the victims of a spate of fatal stabbings in London over the new year has been named by police as Taofeek Lamidi.
Lamidi, 20, was repeatedly stabbed during an attack in Memorial Avenue, West Ham, on New Year’s Eve and a postmortem found the cause of death to be a knife wound to the heart. No one has been arrested in connection with the incident.
He was one of four people stabbed to death in the capital within 15 hours, with two others killed on New Year’s Eve and one on New Year’s Day.
DCI Mark Cranwell said: “Taofeek was repeatedly stabbed and was found lying in the street suffering horrific injuries from which he did not recover. Violent incidents such as this have no place on London’s streets and we are urgently following up a number of lines of inquiry to trace those involved and responsible.
“We know that the victim was with a number of people at the time of the attack, and I urgently need to trace this group of young men.”
Police also confirmed the identity of the victim of an attack on New Year’s Eve in Tulse Hill as Kyall Parnell, 17, from Thornton Heath. He had previously been named in newspaper reports.
The first of the stabbings over the new year took place at 11.30am on 31 December, when an 18-year-old man was attacked in Enfield, north London. He died in hospital that evening.
Lamidi was stabbed at about 7.30pm and was pronounced dead at the scene at 8.22pm. Parnell was attacked at about 10.40pm. On Thursday police arrested two 16-year-old boys in connection with the murder.
A 20-year-old victim, who has not yet been identified, was stabbed during a house party at a flat near Old Street, central London, at about 2.35am on 1 January. An 18-year-old and a 19-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A 20-year-old man, who was also stabbed during the incident, was taken to a north London hospital, where he remains in a critical but stable condition.
The three attacks on 31 December brought the number of fatal stabbings in London in 2017 to 80.
Five men have been arrested in connection with the Enfield killing.
