The metropolitan police commisioner, Sir Ian Blair, todayurged Londoners to "pull together" after four fatal stabbings within 24 hrs accross the capital.
A 19yr old man became the 20th teenager to die in a violent attack in london this year. He was stabbed in a confrontation in a bedsit in Edmonton, north-east London, at about 2.30pm.
Three hours later, in nearby Leyton, a 20-year-old Asian man died from a stab wound to his chest after a confrontation with a gang following a car crash.
At around 8.30pm, a 22-year-old man was found with stab wounds to his head and chest in a street in Walthamstow, less than two miles away. He died an hour later.
At 4am yesterday, the body of a man in his 40s was found with knife wounds behind a disused pub on Tottenham High Road.
The fifth man, who is in a critical condition, is in his late 20s. He was found by police in Brenthurst Road, Willesden, north-west London, with stab wounds to the back and stomach.
Home secretary Jaqui Smith announces new plans to tackle knife crime: cross-government youth crime plan, new enforcement measures and improvements to sentencing. It will also include 'tougher parenting' programmes.
"I want to reassure the public that the MPS [Metropolitan police service] is doing everything possible, both in terms of thoroughly investigating each case and in continuing to carry out proactive operations, to get knives off the streets."
Boris johnson plans to meet Jaqui smith to bring plans for investment in violence prevention work with the capitals teenagers.
Johnson has also been pushing for mandatory jail scentences for anyone caught carrying a knife.
"We need to do all we can to address the long-term complex root causes of violence as well as ensuring the police are providing an effective deterrent to those who carry knives and guns," he said.
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