A 38-year-old Indian-origin man has been stabbed to loss of life in London, simply two days after surprising incidents of knife assaults within the UK which noticed the deaths of a British Indian teen and a scholar from Hyderabad.
Aravind Sasikumar was discovered with knife accidents on June 16 after officers had been referred to as to a residential property on Southampton Means, Camberwell, the Metropolitan Police stated.
He died on the scene at 1.31 am on Friday, the police stated in a press release.
On Saturday, June 17, Salman Salim, 25 of Southampton Means, was charged with homicide, they stated.
He appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court docket on the identical day and was remanded in custody to seem on the Outdated Bailey on June 20.
Sasikumar’s household have been knowledgeable and proceed to be supported by detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, the Night Customary newspaper reported on Sunday.
A autopsy examination carried out on Friday confirmed Sasikumar died on account of stab wounds to the chest, the report added.
A police spokesman stated: On arrival, officers situated a person, aged in his 30s, affected by stab accidents.
Regardless of remedy from medical professionals, the person sadly died on the scene. His subsequent of kin have been knowledgeable and are being supported by specifically educated officers.
A London Ambulance Service spokesman stated: We despatched quite a few sources to the scene, together with an ambulance crew, medics in two quick response vehicles, a complicated paramedic and an incident response officer.
We additionally dispatched a trauma group from London’s Air Ambulance, which consisted of a paramedic and a physician in a automotive.
Sadly, regardless of the very best efforts of our crews, a person was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Harriet Harman, the MP for Camberwell and Peckham, described the loss of life as a horrific homicide and handed on her deepest sympathy to the bereaved household.
Friday’s incident provides to the latest string of knife assaults throughout the UK, which noticed the deaths of British Indian teen Grace O’Malley Kumar, 19 and 27-year-old Tejaswini Kontham from Hyderabad in two separate incidents.
On June 14, Kontham was stabbed to loss of life at a residential property in Neeld Crescent, Wembley in north London. Two males have been arrested in reference to the homicide.
In a separate incident on the identical day, Kumar was killed in a knife assault as she walked again from an evening out with fellow cricket-loving good friend Barnaby Webber, 19.