Overview

• A 26-year-old man was fatally stabbed outside the King’s Ford Wetherspoons on July 6 despite pub staff and bystanders deploying a defibrillator in a bid to save him.
• London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance teams arrived within minutes but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
• The Metropolitan Police have set up a crime scene tent, cordoned Chingford Mount Road and closed surrounding streets for forensic examinations.
• Detectives are collecting CCTV footage, carrying out door-to-door inquiries and appealing for witnesses as no arrests have been made.
• The stabbing has intensified public safety concerns amid a wider surge in knife violence in London that has prompted new legislation and boosted police patrols.