Map of Lawless London knife murders this year lays bare carnage in capital and shows thugs can strike anywhere
Once concentrated to the most deprived areas of the capital, the knife crime epidemic has crept across London
A CHILLING map of brutal knife murders this year reveals nowhere is safe in Lawless London as bloodshed plagues the capital.
The grisly death toll continues to rise with 21 people stabbed to death already in 2019 and police losing control of the streets.
Headlines screech out every day about innocent people slain in the street as even the most hardened Londoners fear leaving their homes after dark.
Sun Online can reveal North London is the most dangerous area of the capital, with seven murders taking place in 2019.
But our harrowing map shows nowhere has managed to escape the gruesome murders despite MPs repeatedly promising a scourge on knife crime.
Once concentrated to the most deprived areas of the capital, the epidemic has crept across London – infesting even the most affluent of boroughs.
PANIC ON THE STREETS OF LONDON
Last week, 25-year-old Zahir Visiter was stabbed to death near Regent’s Park – bringing terror to the tourist hotspot, which is home to Madame Tussauds and Lord’s Cricket Ground.
The next day, “devoted” dad-of-three Gavin Garraway, 40, was killed while protecting his brother in broad daylight in the leafy suburb of Clapham Common.
A stone’s throw away in Fulham, South West London, Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was killed on the same street as murdered TV presenter Jill Dando.
In a cruel twist of fate, Nathaniel was the cousin of Good Morning Britain weatherman Alex Beresford, who had just days before passionately spoken out about knife crime on the ITV show.
SERIAL SLASHER
As blood continued to spill on the streets of London, a serial slasher left the whole of Edmonton terrified after a string of vicious stabbings.
Five people were knifed in the back over a horrifying two-day period in North London – including one victim left paralysed when his spinal cord was sliced.
Security was beefed up at local schools in the wake of the stabbings, which saw four victims attacked in just 14 hours over the weekend, and residents said they were even considering moving.
Sandwiched between the two days of terror was another murder on London’s streets – this time in nearby Kentish Town.
NORTH LONDON BLOODBATH
Calvin Bungisa, 22, had fled war-ravaged Congo for a better and safer life in London with his heartbroken family.
But the “special” lad was chased through the streets by a violent pack of thugs before dying in a bloodbath.
Ironically, the horror unfolded on the same day Prime Minister Theresa May hosted a summit on knife crime at Downing Street.
Just a 15 minute drive away from Calvin’s grisly killing, a 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death with a “Rambo” knife by fiends trying to steal his bike.
Nedim Bilgin was slashed in the chest in January just a few hundreds yards from his home in cushy Islington – Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency.
The brave teen refused to hand over his bike to thieves and managed to stagger into a nearby shop to seek help before he collapsed in a pool of blood in the shadow of Caledonian Road’s trendy cafes.
His haunting last words were “help me” as he took his dying breaths.
GIRL SCOUT KNIFING
But it isn’t just North London that has seen its fair share of bloodshed this year – East London has also fallen victim to the epidemic.
In one of the most shocking killings in Britain this year, 17-year-old girl scout Jodie Chesney was knifed in the back as she sat with pals and her boyfriend in Harold Hill, East London.
Jodie died from a 18cm-deep stab wound while on a picnic bench in a park listening to music on March 1.
Hundreds took to the streets of Romford to pay tribute to Jodie after her distraught dad opened up about his anguish.
YOUNGEST MURDER VICTIM
The youngest murder victim this year was also slaughtered in East London in a savage attack that lasted just 30 seconds.
Aspiring boxer Jaden Moodie, 14, was in the top sets at school but was excluded weeks before he was killed.
The tragic teen was on his moped when he was rammed off the road by a black Mercedes before he was knifed in the back seven times in Waltham Forest in January.
His devastated pals said his abrupt exclusion from school helped propel him towards his death.
Also in East London in March, 26-year-old David Martinez-Valencia was chased from his home into the street where he collapsed and bled to death in Leyton.
SUBURBAN SLAUGHTER
Even moving further out of London doesn’t save lives – with a mum-of-four stabbed to death on the school run in plush Ewell in Surrey.
Aliny Mendes, 39, dedicated her spare time raising money for the community and was well loved in the area.
Her husband Ricardo Godinho, 41, has admitted killing the Aliny but denied murder and will stand trial in June.
KNIFE CRIME EPIDEMIC
In the UK as a whole, there were 39,818 knife crime offences in the 12 months ending September 2018 – the highest number since data began.
Home Office figures also reveal knife-related homicides went from 272 in 2007 to 186 in 2015 – but has risen every year since.
HOSPITALS OVERWHELMED WITH STABBING VICTIMS
HOSPITALS are treating 21 youngsters a day for knife wounds and other injuries from assaults, official figures have revealed.
As many as 4,502 young patients aged 11 to 25 have gone to casualty units or urgent care centres suffering stabbing injuries or similar wounds last year.
The figures are expected to be much higher as only 60 per cent of hospitals provided data.
This means the actual figure is likely to be around 7,600.
The NHS stats were obtained under a freedom of information laws by a croo-party group on knife crime.
If the current trend continues, London will be on course to smash 2018’s record number of killings.
Last year was London’s bloodiest in almost a decade as the number of homicides reached 135.
Politicians have been accused of fighting with each other rather than tackling the plague as embattled Theresa May tries to take control.
The PM warned that “we cannot simply arrest ourselves” out of the problem of violent crime and called for a more wide-ranging approach.
Ms May, who was widely criticised for saying there was no link between police cuts and knife crime, made the comments at a summit on knife crime at Downing Street.
Despite launching a “blitz” on the “disease”, blood continues to be split in London – with a man stabbed outside Ilford train station on Friday.
And on Wednesday, a man, believed to be in his mid-40s, was killed in a “machete attack” in Harrow, North West London.
But as the disturbing map shows, nowhere is now safe from knife crime in London.
