The Metropolitan police have launched a murder investigation after a teenager was stabbed and killed in south-east London.
Police and paramedics were called to Hervey Road, Blackheath, at about 8.10pm on Wednesday, where they found 19-year-old Jordan Wright with stab wounds. He was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital, where he died.
“We sent a paramedic in a car, an ambulance crew, an incident response officer and an advanced paramedic to the scene,” a London ambulance service spokeswoman said. “We were at the scene with the patient for approximately 15 minutes and treatment would have continued en route.”
Did you get that? A paramedic in a car (they also have them on bikes by the way, sometimes these stabbings take place on housing estates & some of them are vast), an ambulance crew AND an advanced paramedic, how many ambulance staff out of the loop for one stabbing is that? Then of course we have a number of police at the scene in an area that is becoming notorious for displays of excessive violence.
Detectives from the Met’s homicide and major crime command are investigating and have appealed for witnesses. If this is gang violence that means copious hours spent investigating, only to hit a brick wall because of an absence of witnesses (they'll already have plenty of forensics).
DCI Diane Tudway said: “I believe Jordan was part of a group of young men who had entered the park together before he was stabbed. Those other young men will know who they are, and I urge each of them to call police or Crimestoppers and simply describe what they saw.”
The latest death brings the number of children and teenagers killed by knives across the UK this year to 13, according to the Guardian’s tally. It comes after Cressida Dick, the new Met commissioner, said on Tuesday that tackling knife and gun crime would mark out her commissionership. Brave lady because this is only spring & the SUMMER of austerity (with all it's attendant frustrations & struggles) is coming!
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