What is London’s murder rate?
As of August 27, there were at least 90 murders in London so far in 2019.
They include:
August 12 – A teenager was stabbed to death “with a foot-long machete” in Camden on August 12.
July 25 – Abdullahi Hassan, 20, died during a double stabbing in South Hampstead.
July 12 – Akbar Arizo, 64, and Layla Arizo, 74, were found fatally stabbed inside their home in South West London.
July 11 – Kye Manning, 19, was stabbed to death during fight in Croydon. Just a day earlier, a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in Kidbrooke, South East London.
July 9 – Kwasi Mensah-Ababio, 26, who worked at Wembley Stadium was found slumped near a bench in Monks Park, North London, on Sunday evening.
July 3 – Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, was eight months pregnant and found with stab injuries at her home in Thornton Heath
June 26 – Yusuf Mohamed, 18, was fatally stabbed in the heart while he was out buying milk for his mum.
June 15 – Gleb Stanislavovitch Zhebrovsky, 34, was stabbed to death in a field next to a nursery and a mosque in Tower Hamlets, East London, just before 2pm.
June 14 – Cheyon Evans, 18, was stabbed to death on the Aboyne Estate in Tooting, South London.
Minutes later, cops were called to Plumstead, south-east London, where a 19-year-old man was shot dead.
June 4 – Adrian Murphy, 43, was found dead inside a luxury riverside apartment in Battersea.
May 30 – Graham Howe, 53, was killed following an altercation in a pub in North Wembley.
May 28 – Ismaila Ceesay, 33, was killed after being stabbed in the abdomen in Forest Gate, east London.
May 23 – Tatania and Vladimir Koudriavtsev, were discovered dead in their Kensington flat.
May 16 – Barrington Davis was found dead in his flat in south-east London.
Initially the 54-year-old’s death was treated as non-suspicious however a post-mortem test revealed he had suffered multiple stab wounds.
May 11 – Erik San-Fillipo, 23, was found dead in a wheelie been in north London.
May 5 – Junior Urugbezi-Edwards, 18, was stabbed to death after being chased down a street in south-east London.
May 1 – Tashaun Aird was murdered in Hackney during another night of bloodshed that also saw a man brutally attacked outside Camden Town tube station in North London.
April 26 – Joshua White, 29, was attacked in Homerton and died of his injuries in hospital.
April 26 – Amy Parsons, 35, was found dead at her flat in Whitechapel, east London.
April 26 – Henriett Szucs was found dead. Her body was found shoved inside a chest freezer in an East London flat on April 26 alongside missing mum-of-three Mihrican Mustafa, 38.
April 23 – Meshak Williams, 21, was stabbed to death in Harlesden.
April 17 – Steven Brown, 47, was stabbed to death in Stoke Newington.
April 16 – Gopinath Kasivisuwanathan, 27, was injured when he was run down during a brawl outside Alperton tube station, in Wembley. He later died in hospital.
April 8 – Noore Bashir Salad, 22, died in Manor Park, East London at around after being stabbed and shot.
April 7 – Annabelle Lancaster, 22, was found dying in a car park next to the eight-storey tower block in Enfield, North London.
April 2 – Hubert Hall, 60, was found suffering from a head injury in Walthamstow. He later died in hospital.
April 1 – Calvin Bungisa, 22, was stabbed to death after being chased through the streets of London by a gang.
March 29 – Gavin Garraway, 40, was knifed through the window of his car in broad daylight in Clapham, South London, before his attackers sprinted away.
March 28 – Zahir Visiter, 25, found with stab wounds in a housing block in Westminster.
March 27 – Ramane Richard Wiggan, 25, was shot dead in West Norwood.
March 24 – Ravi Katharkamar, 54, Pinner, was found knifed in his Pinner shop and was pronounced dead at the scene.
March 22 – Abdirashid Mohamoud, 17, stabbed to death by a masked man in West London.
March 16 – Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, knifed in Fulham.