Man charged over schoolboy murder

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An 18-year-old man has been accused of murdering a teenage schoolboy who was stabbed in a street in south-east London last year.

Ben Hitchcock, 16, from Penge, was stabbed in the stomach in Beckenham, during a fight over gatecrashers at a party on 24 June.

Royston Thomas, an unemployed man of Hazel Grove in Sydenham, south-east London, was charged with murder.

Mr Thomas will appear at Greenwich Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.