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| Teenage boy found stabbed to death in Holloway, London | Teenage boy found stabbed to death in Holloway, London |
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| A 17-year-old boy has become the 14th teenager to be fatally stabbed in London this year. | |
| Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Yoke Close, off North Road, Holloway, at about 20:50 GMT on Monday. | Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Yoke Close, off North Road, Holloway, at about 20:50 GMT on Monday. |
| The victim was declared dead about half an hour later. Police say they know his identity and have informed his next of kin. | |
| No arrests have been made. Police said they were keeping an open mind as to the possible motive. | |
| 'Easier to carry knives' | |
| George Kinsella's 16-year-old son Ben was stabbed to death in North Road in 2008, close to last night's incident. | |
| "The kids that want to carry knives know that there is a possibility they won't be stopped and searched now, so therefore it is easier to move and carry knives about," Mr Kinsella told BBC Radio London. | |
| The number of stop-and-searches in England and Wales fell by 40% in 2015. | |
| Ben Kinsella's sister Brooke tweeted: "Another life lost to knife crime in Islington last night. Someone else's son, someone else's brother. Hard to have hope sometimes." | |
| Updates on this and more from around London | |
| Knives in schools | |
| The families of murder victims marched through central London on Sunday in a protest against knife crime. | The families of murder victims marched through central London on Sunday in a protest against knife crime. |
| They chanted: "We are losing a generation" and "enough is enough". | |
| Caroline Pidgeon, the Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, said every school in London needed to adopt a programme to teach pupils about the dangers of carrying knives. | |
| "Some schools don't want to engage with a knife crime programme. They think there's a stigma," she said. | |
| A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after two pupils were stabbed at a school in Dulwich last week. | |
| The Met has pledged to do all it can to reduce knife crime. | The Met has pledged to do all it can to reduce knife crime. |