A 38-year-old Indian-origin man was killed in a deadly stabbing exterior an condominium block in south London and a 25-year-old man has been charged along with his homicide, because the Scotland Yard stated its Specialist Crime Command is main the investigation.
Aravind Sasikumar died after being discovered with stab accidents exterior a residential property in Southampton Approach in Southwark on Friday.
The Metropolitan Police launched a homicide investigation and charged Salman Salim, 25, with homicide on Saturday, when he appeared earlier than Croydon Magistrates’ Court docket to be remanded in custody. Salim is scheduled to seem on the Previous Bailey courtroom in London on Tuesday.
“Police have been referred to as at 1.27am on Friday after a person was discovered with stab accidents exterior a residential tackle in Southampton Approach,” the Met Police stated in a press release.
“Officers attended together with the London Ambulance Service. Regardless of the efforts of emergency companies, Aravind died on the scene. A autopsy examination carried out on Friday confirmed he died on account of stab wounds to the chest,” the assertion stated.
The Met Police stated the household of Sasikumar, reportedly initially from Kerala, have been knowledgeable and are being supported by detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command.
“Horrific homicide in Southampton Approach/Coleman Rd. Deepest sympathy to bereaved household. Contact police you probably have any information that may assist convey whoever did this to justice,” tweeted Harriet Harman, Labour Social gathering MP for Camberwell and Peckham in south London, quickly after the incident on Friday.
The London Ambulance Service stated it despatched quite a few assets to the scene, together with an ambulance crew, medics in two quick response automobiles, 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 health care provider in a automotive. Sadly, regardless of one of the best efforts of our crews, a person was pronounced useless on the scene,” a spokesperson stated.
This marks the second deadly stabbing of an Indian-origin particular person in London and the third throughout the UK this week.
Tejaswini Kontham, a 27-year-old pupil from Hyderabad who had just lately graduated, was killed at a residential property in north London earlier this week. A 23-year-old Brazilian nationwide has been charged together with her homicide and the tried homicide of her good friend Akhila, who was hospitalised with critical accidents from the stabbing assault in Wembley.
In a separate incident round 205km north of London in Nottingham, British Indian teen hockey star Grace O’Malley Kumar from the College of Nottingham was stabbed together with a college good friend. A 31-year-old man of West African and Portuguese heritage stays in custody charged with their homicide.
