BRUTAL stabbing in north London as man knifed several times in CALLOUS attack
A CALLOUS stabbing on Solway Road, Wood Green, north London has left a man - whose age is not known - with serious injuries.
The man’s injuries are not life-threatening, Scotland Yard has said.
They also confirmed police were called to the attack at 3.14pm on Tuesday afternoon.
The news comes after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released knife crime statistics last week.
The figures showed violent crime levels to be at their highest levels in England and Wales since records began, as knife crime continues to soar and the number of solved cases falls.
The ONS said police recorded 39,332 knife offences, the highest number on record and an annual increase of 12 percent in the year to June 2018.
Knife crime was worse in the capital with almost 15,000 offences committed during the past year, according to the ONS.
The ONS data includes 91 knife murders, 170 rapes or sexual assaults carried out with a blade and 8363 knife-point muggings.
Wood Green is in the London Borough of Haringey, where a teenager was arrested in June after stabbing a man to death near a busy north London tube station.
Edmond Jonuzi, 35, was found with serious knife wounds near Turnpike Lane station, in Haringey, on Saturday, June 9.
Mr Jonuzi, also known as Edmond Preci, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police were also called to Station Road in Wood Green at 3.20am last Saturday after they were alerted to a stabbing outside the Jolly Anglers pub.
A 33-year-old man was declared dead at the scene.
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Police identified the victim as Vincent Harvey and said his next of kin had been informed.
DCI Noel McHugh, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: “It has been established there was a large number of people in and around the Jolly Anglers pub at the time Vincent was stabbed.
“It is vital that anyone who saw this incident, or the events leading up to the incident, get in contact with police.”