{"id":145676,"date":"2018-06-24T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T08:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/romford-death-boy-killed-in-community-centre-party-stabbing\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T08:50:35","slug":"romford-death-boy-killed-in-community-centre-party-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/romford-death-boy-killed-in-community-centre-party-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Romford death: Boy killed in community centre party stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"North Romford Community Centre\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/12095\/production\/_102177837_18582241_1555497634482647_5343679110693215925_n.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Facebook<figcaption>Image caption                                      There had been reports of fighting after a birthday party at the North Romford Community Centre                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in a fight after a birthday party at a community centre in east London.<\/p>\n<p>Three teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder and have been taken to separate police stations for questioning. <\/p>\n<p>The Met Police said they were called to the centre in Romford on Saturday night after fighting broke out as youngsters left a birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>The boy is the youngest victim to be fatally stabbed in London this year.<\/p>\n<p>Police were first called to the North Romford Community Centre on Clockhouse Lane at 21:05 BST.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Met, a fight broke out and the centre was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has identified more than 80 murder investigations have now been launched across London this year by both the Metropolitan and City of London Police.<\/p>\n<p>Det Sgt Gurj Singh said: &quot;Response officers who attended the initial calls were confronted with up to 100 youths leaving a birthday party gathering at a community centre.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Romford MP Andrew Rosindell said it was &quot;devastating&quot; that a young life had &quot;so tragically been cut short on our streets tonight&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The boy&#039;s next of kin have been informed, although his identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London murders: Violent crime wave &#039;is not new normal&#039;<\/li>\n<li>Can Scottish police help stop violent deaths in London?<\/li>\n<li>Probe launched into London violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A bus driver in his 50s was treated for a head injury at the scene, the Met said, adding that there were no other injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police have appealed for witnesses and a cordon remained in place on Sunday morning as investigators continued their search for evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright FacebookImage caption There had been reports of fighting after a birthday party at the North Romford Community Centre A 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}