DOUG SAUNDERS Frm Tuesday's Globe and Mail LONDON — Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez died in pain and confusion. Somebody broke into the south London apartment of the two 23-year-old French university students, tied them up and stabbed them 240 times, apparently torturing them for their bank card passwords, before setting their dying bodies alight. Shakilus Townsend died in terror. The 16-year-old boy was chased through the streets of London by half a dozen hooded men and one woman who cornered him behind a building and stabbed him four times in the chest. Bleeding to death, he cried out repeatedly for his mother. In London, this has become the season of the knife, and the stories of Laurent, Gabriel, Shakilus and at least 16 more victims have blotted out all other topics, leaving the city bewildered by weekly reports of...
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