Here are five stories from yesterday that you might have missed.

1. Four young children "could have been killed" when a fire destroyed their Abbey Wood bungalow home and left their three pet dogs dead.

Fortunately 27-year-old Mary Stewart and her four children, Louie Rose, 10, Phoebe, eight, Billy Dean, five, and four-month-old Johnny, were attending a birthday party, so were not home.

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2. A Greenwich student is in intensive care after allegedly being kidnapped and tortured.

University of Greenwich economics student Motaz Zaid, 20, is under police guard after allegedly being kidnapped in Fulham and forced to drink bleach.

3. A teenager who was just 16 when he murdered James Hunter in a 'brutal attack' in Sydenham was sentenced to life in prison.

Giovanni Dixon, now 17, from Sandown Road in South Norwood, stabbed 18-year-old James Hunter to death on May 31 last year.

Mr Hunter died outside the Tasty Chicken shop in Wells Park Road, Sydenham.

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James Hunter

4. A Bexleyheath nine-year-old has teamed up with his best friend to run a mini-marathon in memory of his dad who lost his fight with cancer eight months ago.

Ben Evans lost his dad Nick Evans, 46, in August last year.

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Nick Evans with daughter Layla and Ben

5. A security guard was stabbed during a robbery in Lewisham yesterday (April 14).

Police were called to the scene on Connington Road at 1.49pm to reports of a man suffering a stab wound.