22/08/2008

Remand Over Croydon Stabbing

A 30-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Nilanthan Murddi in Croydon.

Seventeen-year-old Nilanthan, of New Addington, was killed in a street brawl involving between six and eight people on Sumner Road in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Police officers and the London Ambulance Service attended the scene, but Nilanthan was taken to Mayday Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 4.30am.

A post mortem examination revealed he died from a single knife wound to the neck.

Steven Braithwaite, a labourer of no fixed address, will appear at the Old Bailey on 27 November after the case was adjourned at Sutton magistrates court on Thursday.

The teenager is the 23rd victim to die of violent crime in London this year.

(DS)


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