Boy stabbed four times in Croydon shopping centre attack (From This Is Local London)

Boy stabbed four times in Croydon shopping centre gang attack

4:24pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010 in News By Harry Miller

Boy stabbed four times after Croydon shopping centre gang attack

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed four times in a gang fight that spilled into Centrale Shopping centre yesterday.

Members of the Don't Say Nothing gang along with Gypset started fighting outside McDonalds in North End and carried on fighting into Centrale's TK Maxx where one of the boys pulled out a knife.

The knife was then taken off the boy and used to stab him four times in the stomach and face.

A security guard, who wished to remain unnamed said: “It is always the same groups of boys, every time.

“The police have their hands tied with these youths because of the courts, they need to just bang them up. It's happening all the time now.”

According to shop staff the fight raged in TK Maxx and then spilled out into he main concourse of Centrale where the young man was stabbed.

A spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 6.15pm to reports of a stabbing in Centrale Shopping Centre.

“We sent a fast response car and an ambulance crew and treated a boy.

“He was then taken as a priority to hospital."

When the police arrived the youths scattered out of Centrale's different exits leaving the boy on the concourse

A spokesman for Croydon Police said: “At 6.15pm on February 2, police were called to North End, Croydon following reports of a fight involving seven youths.

“A 16 year-old boy was found inside TK Maxx suffering stab wounds.

“LAS attended the scene and treated the boy before taking him to a south London hospital. His condition is described as stable.

Two 18-year-old men, a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man have been arrested in connection with the incident.”

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