An aspiring barrister, 17-year-old Ayub Hassan, was stabbed in the chest on Thursday in broad daylight in west London becoming the latest victim of knife crime in London.
He died of his injuries in hospital an hour later, the 17th person to be knifed to death in the capital in the first three months of this year.
A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder on Saturday following the attack.
The spate of fatal stabbings in the London - five in the past week - have prompted warnings from a police chief that the country is facing a national emergency.
After a drop in knife crime for several years, marked by a low in 2014, figures from the Home Office show knife crime is on the rise in the UK, with the number of knife related offences in 2018 the highest since 2011.
Recent figures show the number of young people killed by knives rose by nearly 50 per cent last year amid a surge of violence.
In 2018, 76 people were reportedly stabbed to death in London and 306 in the UK as a whole. Of those, 23 were children.
Fourteen-year-old Jaden Moodie is the youngest victim of 2019 and many of those brandishing knives have been found to not be not much older.
In the two years between 2016 and 2018, offenders identified as under 18 and convicted of murder and manslaughter with a knife rose by 77 percent, a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation found.
Theresa May has faced a backlash after she said there is no correlation between a decline in police numbers and “certain crimes.”
The number of police officers across the 43 forces in England and Wales has fallen by more than 20,000 since 2009.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has demanded ministers "reverse the cuts" and "give us the funding we need to make sure there is sufficient policing across London".
"The stark reality is in London over the last eight years, we have lost more than £800 million of funding from central Government, we're being asked to make a further round of cuts of £200 million from central Government - that's a billion pounds lost from the Met Police budget.
He added: "We've got fewer officers now in 2019 than in any time since 2003, when our population has grown by more than a million-and-a-half.
"But also we've seen youth services, preventative services, councils, schools have their budgets cut as well, so we need investment in preventative services but also policing too."
But, there are groups around the UK who are taking their own initiative to tackle the issue.
Earlier this week, charity Street Doctors revealed they were training local young people in how to deal with violence they were experiencing first hand.
In 2018, they charity taught 4,039 young people the skills they need to treat someone who is bleeding or unconscious.
Nineteen of their volunteers have used those skills in a real life emergency. Eleven of those involved young people helping others or themselves after a stabbing.
CEO Nicky Hill said solving the issues around knife crime are complex and need to be looked at holistically.
“StreetDoctors has long delivered thought provoking and educational first aid sessions to young people most at risk of being affected by violence taking a public health approach.
“We firmly believe that this is the approach that should be adopted by Government, ensuring that we get to grips with the complex drivers of youth violence with a collaborative, multifaceted response.”
These are the people who have died from stabbings in London so far this year:
January 1: Charlotte Huggins, 33, is believed to have been the first stabbing victim in London in 2019. She was knifed in Camberwell, south-east London, in the early hours of New Year's Day.
January 1: Later that morning, security guard Tudor Simionov, also 33, was stabbed to death at about 5.30am as he tried to prevent gatecrashers storming a private party in Park Lane, central London.
January 8: Jaden Moodie is the youngest stabbing victim this year at just 14 years old. He was knocked off a moped and knifed to death in Leyton, east London.
January 27: Kamil Malysz, 34, was found stabbed to death in a share house in Acton, west London.
January 29: Nedim Bilgin, 17, was stabbed in the chest with a “Rambo” knife in a clash with at least two other teenagers in Caledonian Road, Islington, north London.
February 5: Lejean Richards, 19, was fatally stabbed in Battersea, south-west London after he had recently been released from prison and was planning to go back to college to finish his studies.
February 10: Dennis Anderson, 39, was found fatally stabbed in the neck following a row at a 24-hour convenience shop in East Dulwich, south-east London.
February 18: Bright Akinleye, 22, was stabbed in the leg during at a row at a house party in Starcross Street, Euston. He later died after staggering into the lobby of a luxury hotel nearby.
February 21: Glendon Spence, 23, was killed outside a youth club in Brixton, south London. Police have charged two 17-year-olds with murder.
February 22: Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, 19, was killed by a gang riding bikes and carrying a firearm, knives and a samurai sword in Wood Green, Haringey. A second man, 20, was shot but survived the attack.
February 25: Spanish national David Lopez-Fernandez, 38, was pronounced dead after being found with stab wounds at an address in Globe Road in Tower Hamlets, east London. A 36-year-old man was charged with murder.
February 26: Che Morrison, 20, died after being stabbed to death outside Ilford station in east London.
March 1: Jodie Chesney, 17, was stabbed in the back in an attack in Harold Park, east London while she was listening to music with friends. Manuel Petrovic, 20, has appeared in court charged with murder over the attack. Another man who was also arrested remains in custody.
March 2: A 50-year-old woman was found dead with fatal knife injuries at a property in Hendon, north-west London. A 54-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.
March 3: A 37-year-old man was found with stab wounds in Soho and died three days later. A man has been charged in relation to the incident.
March 6: David Martinez, a 26-year-old Spanish national was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Leyton, Waltham Forest. Police and medics found him with multiple stab wounds and he died at the scene.
March 7: 17-year-old Ayub Hassan was found with stab wounds to the chest on Thursday afternoon on Lafrey Place, near West Kensington tube station. He died in hospital a short time later. A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder over the attack.
