Crime scene: the police outside St Peter’s Churchyard yesterday. The stabbing victim found on Saturday night has life-threatening wounds
The churchyard of St Peter’s in South Croydon was cordoned off as a police crime scene all through Sunday, after the borough’s latest stabbing left a 22-year-old man with life-threatening wounds.
The Metropolitan Police were called around 7.15pm on Saturday following “reports of a stabbing on Heathfield Road”.
A Scotland Yard spokesperson said: “Officers and London Ambulance Service attended and found a 22-year-old man suffering injuries.
“He was taken to hospital where his injuries are described as life-threatening.”
No arrests have been made, and enquiries continue.
The police say” Anyone with information is asked to call 101 or X @MetCC and quote CAD 6360/27JUL24. You can also provide information anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111
- If you have a news story about life in or around Croydon, or want to publicise your residents’ association or business, or if you have a local event to promote, please email us with full details at inside.croydon@btinternet.com
As featured on Google News Showcase
- Our comments section on every report provides all readers with an immediate “right of reply” on all our content. Our comments policy can be read by clicking here
Inside Croydon is a member of the Independent Community News Network
- Inside Croydon works together with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, as well as BBC London News and ITV London
ROTTEN BOROUGH AWARDS: In January 2024, Croydon was named among the country’s rottenest boroughs for a SEVENTH successive year in the annual round-up of civic cock-ups in Private Eye magazine
