A 15-year-old has been arrested in Brighton after a teenage boy was stabbed to death in south London on Thursday morning.
Detectives had been called to reports of a disturbance at a house in the Shrublands area of Croydon in the early hours.
Inside the home in Bracken Avenue, they found a 16-year-old suffering from stab wounds. He was pronounced dead just after 1.30am on Thursday.
He is the 19th London teenager to be killed so far this year, according to the Evening Standard. This includes 17 who have died from stab wounds.
The 15-year-old boy was arrested in Brighton on Friday in connection with the incident, according to Scotland Yard.
He has been taken to a police station in East Sussex, where he remains.
The victim’s next of kin have been informed. A postmortem will take place and police await formal identification.
