Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a 25-year-old man who was stabbed to death in north London on Saturday.
The boys, aged 15 and 16, were arrested on Sunday after Portuguese national and keen boxer Wilham Mendes was stabbed to death in the early hours of Saturday in Albert Place, Tottenham.
They were charged on Monday.
Police said the victim was taken to an east London hospital after they were called at 1.20am, and was pronounced dead at the hospital less than an hour later.
Detective Chief Inspector Glen Lloyd, who is leading the investigation, said: "At the heart of this, we have an innocent young man who has been brutally murdered just days before Christmas."
A post-mortem examination will be held in due course.
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The latest death brings the number of homicides – both murder and manslaughter – in London up to 131 this year, and increases the number of murders in Haringey, the borough where Tottenham is, to eight.
Sky News analysis found the longest London went without a violent killing in 2018 was just 16 days.
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