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Frontline’ figures expose hot spots for youth attacks
Police crime mapping shows 4pm is the time teenagers are most in danger of violence
ON the frontline stretching from Kentish Town through Chalk Farm to Mornington Crescent, zero-hour is 4pm and the average age of the combatants is 16.
New crime mapping compiled by Camden police shows a “high intensity” zone that follows Camden High Street into Chalk Farm Road and north up Ferdinand Street to Malden Road.
Within it, the average age of the victims of reported youth violence – everything from harassment to murder – is just 18.
A breakdown of the timing of attacks on the young shows that the streets across Camden are at their most dangerous not in the dark of night, but in the bustle of the hometime hour, with the peak of the violence occurring at 4pm.
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London's grisly knife crime toll rose in the early hours of this morning, when a 27-year old party goer was stabbed in the neck at a party and collapsed and died in the street, in Tufnell Park, London. The spot is just three hundred yards north of the spot that tragic teen knife victim, Ben Kinsella was slain.
A man has died from his wounds after being stabbed in north London.
The 27-year-old victim was found in Junction Road, Tufnell Park, at about 0250 BST.
He is thought to have been stabbed in the neck and was taken to hospital but died about an hour later. A post-mortem examination will take place later.
Two men, aged 30 and 41, and a woman, aged 39, have been arrested and are being held at separate north London police stations.
'Normally quiet'
The victim is thought to have been stabbed in the neck at a party on Junction Road.
According to local residents he staggered onto Dartmouth Park Hill before collapsing outside the Dome Music Hall where security guards attempted to revive him.
Alex Williams, 20, a student from Laurier Road, said: "It's normally really quiet. I never expected this.
"I always thought these things happened in south London. It is worrying."
A tribute on a wreath left at the site read: "What a waste of a life!"
Police believe they know the identity of the victim but are waiting to inform next-of-kin.
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