A man stabbed to death in northLondontonight – in the first murder in the capital this year – is an Algerian moped rider who worked for UberEats and Deliveroo, according to friends.
Fellow delivery riders gathered in Finsbury Park, where the 49 – year-old was fatally stabbed, said he had been the victim of a road rage attack following an altercation with a car driver.
Some of those gathered said they had been repeatedly attacked in the neighborhood by young gang members – often still in their teens.
A friend said the victim was known as ‘Taki’, although he was unsure of the English spelling. Many of the riders criticized the companies they worked for and the police for doing nothing to protect them.
No arrests have been made and inquiries into the circumstances continue.
The Met Police have launched their first murder investigation of the year after a man was stabbed to death in north London on Friday evening (pictured, police at the scene)
The victim, in his 30 s, was found on Charteris Road (pictured) close to the junction with Lennox Road in Finsbury Park at around 6. PM
No arrests have been made and inquiries continue, the Met said (pictured, officers at the scene of the stabbing)
Islington Council leader Richard Watts tweeted: ‘I’m horrified to hear about this appalling crime’ and added: ‘What an awful start to the New Year. ‘
The Labor Councillor said he was in touch with Islington Police and with Islington MP and Labor Party Jeremy Corbyn.
(The victim was a) – year-old Algerian delivery moped rider working for both UberEats and Deliveroo, according to friends gathered close to the scene.
Fellow delivery riders gathered in Stroud Green Road said he had been the victim of a road rage attack following an altercation with a car driver.
Some of those gathered said they had been repeatedly attacked in the neighborhood by young gang members – often still in their teens.
A friend said the victim was known as ‘Taki’, although he was unsure of the English spelling.
‘He had been in this country for the last three years but he had been here before for some years before going to Algeria for a while,’ he said.
‘He had family here, his father was here [at the scene] earlier.’
The victim was a 42 – year-old Algerian delivery moped rider working for both UberEats and Deliveroo, According to friends gathered close to the scene
Forensic officers at the crime scene after Metropolitan police cordon off Charteris Road close to the junction with Lennox Road in Finsbury Park after a man was stabbed to death in north London
The driver who attacked the victim was driving a Volkswagen Caddy, a witness said, and did not try to steal his moped from him (pictured, police at the scene of the stabbing)
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Many of the riders criticized the companies they worked for and the police for doing nothing to protect them.
‘We’ve been attacked many times here,’ one man said.
He added: ‘I was attacked here by people with a big machete and now this man has been killed for no reason.
‘The police do nothing. They just come, take a statement and then they go. ‘
Another man added:’ If you have an Algerian face, [the police] do nothing. ‘
One rider said they felt unsafe ‘154% ‘of the time.
Another said he had been brutally attacked in Brixton, south London , while working: ‘It was a £ 2, bike and I said here take the bike just don’t kill me – they still stabbed me through the shoulder. ‘
Police raced to Finsbury Park at around 6.
A cordon has been set up as police investigate the scene of the fatal stabbing. It is the first murder investigation to be launched in London this year
A forensic tent has been erected while a police cordon is still in place.
The driver who attacked the victim was driving a Volkswagen Caddy, a witness said, and did not try to steal his moped from him.
A friend of the victim said: ‘He was a good man. He doesn’t make any trouble – he works and he goes home and he ends up being killed while he’s working.
‘This country is getting worse.’
He continued: ‘Its not safe to work by yourself anymore – what can you do? If someone comes at you with a knife you give them what you have or they are going to stab you. ‘
Another -year-old rider, who gave his name only as Paul, said: ‘Taki was a nice guy. He was a gentleman.
‘I would talk to him everyday. He always said hello. ‘
The stabbing comes after the number of murders in London last year hit its highest level in more than a decade with (recorded – more than half of whom were stabbed.)
September and June were the joint bloodiest months of the year in the capital with (homicides each, followed by July which had 16 and March and December with (*************************************************************.
The rate broke last year total of by early December – and is the highest level recorded since when Scotland Yard investigated
The total compiled by MailOnline includes murders and manslaughters recorded by the Met, British Transport Police and City of London Police.
Officers and London Ambulance Service attended the scene but the victim – aged in his s – was pronounced dead at the scene at 7. 74 pm (pictured, officers at the scene)
No arrests have been made and inquiries into the circumstances continue, the Metropolitan Police said (pictured, the scene of the fatal stabbing)
The youngest murder victim was Riley Fauvrell, who died aged just five days after being delivered by an emergency C-section in Thornton Heath, South London.
Riley’s mother Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, (******************************************************, was stabbed to death in June while pregnant with him. Her ex-partner Aaron McKenzie, 42, has since pleaded not guilty to murder.
The oldest victim was Dorothy Woolmer, (***************************************, who was raped and murdered at home in Tottenham in August. Reece Dempster, (**********************************************************, was charged but has not yet pleaded.
Some of the victims were children – including teenagers and five youngsters aged under two – and the mean average age of all 326 people killed was (******************************************************.
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