Schoolboy, 15, Dies In Hospital After Being Stabbed On A Bus

A schoolboy has died in hospital after he was stabbed on a bus in Highbury New Park (pictured) in broad daylight

A murder hunt has been launched after a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed on a bus died in hospital.

The teenager, said by locals to be a student at Highbury Grove School, was attacked on a 393 bus near Arsenal's football stadium just after 3pm on Tuesday.

Police were called and the victim was rushed to hospital in a critical condition but he succumbed to his injuries yesterday evening.

Nearby residents said the boy was stabbed by a black teenager, aged around 16, who was wearing a baseball cap and who also pushed a passenger to the ground before running off through the nearby Spring Gardens Estate.

Andrew Lloyd Webber had visited Highbury Grove School earlier in the day support of the Music in Secondary Schools Trust.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: 'The victim was taken by London's Air Ambulance to an east London hospital where he died late on Wednesday 24 April. Next of kin are aware.

'A post-mortem examination will be held in due course. An incident room has opened under Detective Chief Inspector Chris Jones of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command.'

Police confirmed a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the attack and remains in custody at a north London police station.

One local resident, who did not want to be named, said: 'I have been told that the boy that attacked him went to the back of the bus and stabbed him. He then pushed someone over, jumped off the bus and ran through the estate.'

Miriam Zoabir, 61, was picking her 12-year-old granddaughter up from school around 3pm. She said: 'There was police and ambulances everywhere.

'I was so worried my granddaughter might have been caught up in it, but thankfully I saw her quite quickly.

'There is never really any trouble at this school since my granddaughter started going here.'

A spokesman for London Ambulance said a helicopter ambulance landed in the playing fields of a nearby school before taking the youngster to hospital.

A woman described hearing a bus screech to a halt moments after the youngster was stabbed on board.

Lucy Smith, 56, who lives in a flat overlooking the scene, said: 'I was looking out of the window.

'I saw the bus screech to a halt.'
She said a boy jumped off the bus and ran down the road.

She said: 'My dogs nearly had him, but I didn't see where he went. Obviously I didn't know what had happened at the time.'

Paramedics attended the scene along with a helicopter ambulance which landed in the playing fields of nearby Highbury Grove School in Highbury Grove.

One eyewitness, who did not wish to be named, said: 'He was stabbed on the bus, at the back of the bus. He looked about 15 years old although some people were saying he might only be 12.

'I saw the passengers on the bus milling around and people were giving him CPR. I thought at first that he had had some sort of epileptic fit, they were working on him for quite a long time.

'But then a workman said that it was a boy who had been stabbed.

'The police and then the ambulance turned up and took over. At first there was just one police car and then loads turned up.

'The next thing was the air ambulance arrived and landed in the car park of Highbury Grove school.

'They put the boy on a stretcher with a white screen around him – I don't think it looked very good.'

Elizabeth Johnson, 33, who lives on the Highbury New Park Estate opposite the scene, described seeing the boy being given CPR as he lay in the road.

She said: 'They were doing CPR on the road. It's a little child. He was very young only Year 1 or so.

'An air ambulance arrived and parked in the school playground and then took off about half an hour later. People are still on the bus and they are taking their details.'

She added that she believed that the young stabbing victim may have been a pupil at a nearby school.

Eyewitness Emma Nisse said on Twitter: 'Stabbing on bus right outside my house – police everywhere & paramedics trying to save his life by my garden gate.'

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