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The latest teenage victim of London's knife crime crisis was chased like an animal and left pleading for his mother as he lay dying in the street. Shakilus Townsend, 16, died today after a daylight gang attack, which a senior detective described as 'another senseless incident in which a young life has been taken away by a knife'. The teenager is believed to have been stabbed five times in the chest and stomach after being chased by up to six youths wearing masks and hoods. At least one girl was among them. Police later found a blood-covered knife in a nearby bush in Thornton Heath. Crime scene: The entrance to the flats at Beaulah Cresent, Thornton Heath where Shakilus Townsend, 16, was stabbed Shakilus, from New Cross, died in St George's Hospital, Tooting, early today, 10 hours after the attack. He is the 18th teenager to... [read full story]
