15-Year-Old Boy Charged With West Kensington Murder
Ayub Hassan stabbed to death outside Waitrose store
Ayub Hassan
Officers investigating the murder that took place in West Kensington this Thursday (7 March) have charged a 15-year-old boy.
He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court this Saturday (9 March) charged with killing a 17-year-old male who has now been named as Ayub Hassan, from Shepherd’s Bush.
Ayub was found with stab injuries to the chest and taken to a central London hospital, but he sadly died a short time later.
The fatal stabbing occurred in Lanfrey Place, W14 which is off the North End Road just outside the Waitrose store shortly before 2.14pm.
Three other males were arrested as part of the investigation by detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command with two now released with no further action. A 17-year-old has been bailed pending further enquiries until mid-April.
According to a report in the Daily Mirror there had been previous attempts on his life though there was no suggestion those charged or arrested were responsible for the earlier alleged attempts. He had been stabbed on a earlier occasion.
His mother Siraad told the Evening Standard that Ayub, the oldest of her three children, had wanted to be a barrister and that he was her ‘best friend'.
Police also announced the implementation a Section 60 Authority between the hours of 4.44pm and 4am across the north areas of Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea and most of Hammersmith & Fulham.
A Section 60 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (s.60) gives police the right to search people in a defined area during a specific time period when they believe, with good reason, that: serious violence will take place and it is necessary to use this power to prevent such violence; or that a person is carrying a dangerous object or offensive weapon; or that an incident involving serious violence has taken place and a dangerous instrument or offensive weapon used in the incident is being carried in the locality.
Lanfrey Place. Picture: Google Streetview
Similar powers have also been implemented in nearby Chiswick and Acton.
Any witnesses or anyone with any information is asked to call police on 101 or contact via Twitter @MetCC quoting CAD 4136/07MAR.
To give information anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.
March 11, 2019