Officers were called to reports of a stabbing on Westbourne Road at 1.02pm. Met Police officers attended the scene alongside the London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance. A 15-year-old boy was treated by paramedics for a stab wound at the scene before being taken to hospital. He later died in hospital despite best efforts of medical staff. The teenager's family has been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.
The incident happened on Holloway Road at the junction with Madras Place, Islington in the early hours of Sunday, June 22. During the altercation at around 3.30am, one of the victims fell backwards and received injuries to her head before the suspect fled the scene. The incident happened on Holloway Road in Islington Officers rushed to the street and admitted the women to hospital, where they received treatment for bruising. One of the women was also treated for cuts to her head.
The new automated public toilets have already opened in Newington Green, City Road and Highbury Fields and will open on Holloway Road, Seven Sisters Road and Highbury Crescent on September 1. Each WC is self cleaning, with the toilet bowl, seat, floor and walls automatically disinfected after every use. At night, they'll be blitz with ozone-based night cleaning to keep them fresh. Like any good public toilet, there'll also be plenty of bins of general and menstrual waste.
Police are investigating the alleged assaults, which reportedly occurred on March 9 earlier this year. At 8.40pm in Cruikshank Street, a woman in her 20s reported being followed by a man who sexually assaulted her before walking away towards Great Percy Street.