By Andrew Young And Lucy Caulkett-
Five Murders in Leeds and London between new years eve and New years day have ruined 2018 for their respective families.
As millions of Londoners set out to celebrate the end of 2017 and look forward to 2018, some set out on vicious missions. People who carry knives or guns do that with one thing in mind: the readiness to use those weapons to cause damage.
A murder inquiry has been launched by Yorkshire police on New year’s day after a man was found with a fatal head injury in Leeds on New Year’s day. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death at Rosgill Drive, Seacroft. Police were called to the scene at around 4.36pm on New Year’s day in response to a report of a man with a gun.
Upon their arrival at the scene, armed officers were greeted with the unpleasant scene of a man with a head injury. A gun was also recovered, according to Yorkshire police. A West Yorkshire Police spokesman told The Eye Of Media. Com in a statement: “Emergency services treated the injured man at the scene, but he was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.”Following inquiries at the scene two men were arrested on suspicion of murder.”Enquiries into this incident are still at an early stage, although it is not thought to have involved a firearms discharge.”
LONDON MURDERS
The news comes in the wake of four separate murder inquiries in London. In Larmans Road, Enfield, an 18-year-old was stabbed at 11.30am.
and rushed to hospital but later died from his injuries. On New Year’s Eve, a 20-year-old was stabbed to death in Memorial Avenue, West Ham, three hours before a 17-year-old boy died after he was stabbed in Norwood Road near the junction with Station Rise, Tulse Hill.
Efforts by both officers and paramedics to save the victim in West Ham were to no avail, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene at 8.22pm. A murder investigation was launched by the Met’s Homicide and Major Crime Command under Det Chief Insp Will Reynolds. Reynolds
said:
“This attack has robbed a young man of his future and robbed a family of their loved one.
“The victim was with a number of people at the time of the attack, and I urgently need to trace this group of young men.
“Memorial Avenue is a busy residential area close to West Ham station. I know that there were people in the area who witnessed the incident, and I also need them to come forward.”
The fourth murder took place in the early hours of this morning after a 20-year-old man died in a double stabbing in Bartholomew Court, Old Street, at around 2.30am. Five males have been arrested in connection with the murder in Enfield, but the perpetrators of the other killings remain at large. Police desperately want to identify them.
Commander Neil Jerome, from the Met’s territorial policing command, said:
“There were thousands of officers on duty across London yesterday and throughout the night, all determined to play their part in keeping the public safe.
“I am grateful to Londoners and visitors to the capital who co-operated with police – both at major celebrations in Westminster and at thousands of organised and private events across London – to enable the vast majority of people to enjoy New Year’s Eve.
“However, there were small groups who chose to engage in disorder and violence, and whose actions have had utterly tragic consequences.
“It is heart-breaking that, at a time when so many of us are contemplating what lies ahead in 2018, four families are dealing with the grief of losing a loved one to senseless violence and the callous use of knives as lethal weapons.
“I can assure Londoners – and the families and friends of the four males killed and the fifth who remains in hospital – that detectives will work tirelessly to bring to justice those responsible for such despicable acts of violence.
“As we begin these investigations and the provision of support to four grieving families, days like this serve to re-enforce the determination of the Metropolitan Police to tackle knife crime and violence on our streets; especially offences committed by and against young people.
“I would urge anyone with information about these attacks, and more generally about anyone who routinely carries a knife, to urgently pass that information to police or Crimestoppers.
“If you’ve hesitated to do so before, then these four tragic deaths at the start of a new year may persuade you to act now to make London safer for your family and friends in 2018.”
It seems that every new year, there are always victims of violence who will not see the new year because of some dispute with individuals who are or will become murderers.