Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with the murder of a man stabbed to death in north London.
Portuguese national and keen boxer Wilham Mendes, 25, was found with multiple stab wounds at Albert Place in Tottenham at about 1.20am on Saturday 22 December. He was taken by the London ambulance service to an east London hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
The two 15-year-old boys, who cannot be named because of their age, were arrested on 23 December and charged. The pair appeared in court on Wednesday, wearing tracksuits, and were allowed to sit in the open dock rather than the secure dock because of their age. One of the defendants’ mothers sat in court in front of the dock in support of her son.
The district judge, Robin McPhee, remanded the pair into youth detention until their next appearance at the central criminal court for a bail application on 28 December at 9.30am.
The teenagers were also charged with the robbery of Mendes, the robbery of a second man and the attempted robbery of another member of the public.
The police have informed Mendes’s next of kin. Mendes had lived in the UK since 2015 and was residing in Tottenham at the time of his death. He was a boxer and had recently won an amateur bout.
Police are still seeking two other individuals in connection with Mendes’s killing.
