Man stabbed outside Simmons cocktail bar on Sunday morning after weekend of other attacks in Capital
Police cordon off University Street, outside The Simmons cocktail bar next to the University College hospital in Camden at lunchtime yesterday (Sunday) shortly after the second of two stabbings in London which police believe to be linked.
A 16-year-old boy and a 37-year-old man were stabbed and both victims are in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The first stabbing took place on Romily Street, Soho, at just after 6am and the second at about 11.35am on University Street.
A man in his 30s was arrested in connection with both attacks, with the Soho stabbing being treated as attempted murder. A woman in her 40s was also arrested over the Soho stabbing. She remains in custody.
The arrested man was taken to hospital after he told officers he had “swallowed a quantity of drugs”, the Metropolitan Police said.
The force said it was not looking for anyone else in connection with the attacks at this stage.
The stabbings follow a series of other attacks in the capital over the weekend.
Jodie Chesney, 17, was stabbed to death in Romford, east London, on Friday night while a woman was also found stabbed to death in a Hendon home on Saturday, and a 17-year-old boy was stabbed in Lewisham on the same day after a report that a group of people refused to leave a private party.
