Four people stabbed to death in separate incidents across Britain on eve of Coronation

FOUR people were stabbed to death in separate incidents across Britain on the eve of the Coronation.

Three of the killings were within eight hours in East London, as the capital’s knife crime epidemic showed no sign of abating.

Two teenagers, including a boy of 16 ambushed outside his school, were among the victims, along with a young man stabbed outside a McDonald’s in Bath.

The first killing happened as the 16-year-old left Kelmscott School in Walthamstow on Friday.

He was said to have been chased by three older boys lying in wait.

Head Sam Jones called it the “darkest of days” and urged parents to “hold those that you love close”.

Four miles away in Hackney, a man in his late 20s was killed shortly after 11pm.

Two men and a woman, in their 40s or 50s, were arrested.

Within an hour, an 18-year-old died as two machete-wielding groups fought at Dagenham Heathway Tube station.

Chadwell Heath councillor Michel Pongo named the victim as his nephew, Jordan.

In a message to gang members, he tweeted: “Drop your knife before it is too late.”

In Bath on Saturday, three were held over Ben Moncrieff’s murder.