London:

A youngster will seem in a London courtroom on Friday charged with the homicide of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in a case that has as soon as once more shone the highlight on UK Knife crime. 

Elianne Andam was stabbed to dying in Croydon, south London, as she went to high school on Wednesday.

A 17-year-old boy, who can’t be named for authorized causes, was arrested shortly afterwards.

He is because of seem at youth courtroom, sitting at Croydon Magistrates’ Courtroom, later Friday charged with homicide and possession of a knife, police stated in an announcement.

Emergency providers together with an air ambulance had been known as to the scene at round 8:30 am (0730 GMT) following studies of a stabbing.

Paramedics battled to avoid wasting the lady however she was pronounced useless on the scene 50 minutes later.

London mayor Sadiq Khan stated he was “heartbroken” by the deadly incident and pledged to “proceed working day and night time to finish the scourge of knife crime in our metropolis”.  

In response to official figures, 99 individuals beneath the age of 25 had been killed in England and Wales with a knife or sharp object within the 12 months to March 2023. Of these 13 had been beneath the age of 16.

The deaths had been amongst 50,000 stabbing incidents within the 12 months to March 2023, a 5 p.c enhance on the earlier 12 months and a 75 p.c enhance on a decade in the past, the figures from the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics confirmed. 

Andam was a pupil at Previous Palace of John Whitgift Faculty, a non-public ladies’ faculty in Croydon.

“We’re deeply shocked by the mindless and tragic dying of our much-loved and valued buddy and pupil,” the college stated in an announcement.

“It’s going to take a while for the Previous Palace neighborhood to return to phrases with this horrible information.”

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