AS another year of violence in London moves towards its close, a 16-year-old will spend the rest of Christmas and the new year behind bars after being arrested on suspicion of murder after two teenage boys were stabbed - leaving one dead and the other in hospital.

Two 16-year-old boys were knifed at around 10.30pm near Old Street in central London last Tuesday (Dec 20).

Jamaly Samba Baibu was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other youngster was taken to a hospital in east London with non-life threatening injuries.

Yesterday (Tuesday, 27 December) another 16-year-old boy was arrested over the killing.

A spokesman for the Met Police said: "Detectives investigating the murder of a teenager in Islington have made an arrest.

"The 16-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday, December 27. He remains in custody at a north London police station.

"At 10.33pm on Tuesday, December 20, police were called to Seward Street, EC1, where, on arrival, they found two 16-year-old boys with stab wounds.

"Officers provided emergency first aid until the arrival of paramedics and doctors from London's Air Ambulance.

"Despite the best efforts of all involved, one of the boys was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

"He has been named as Jamaly Samba Baibu. His family are being supported by specialist officers.

"The second boy was taken to an east London hospital where his injuries were assessed as non-life threatening.

"The investigation is led by homicide detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command."

Jamaly was the fourteenth teenager to be murdered in the capital this year.

In the same Islington borough just five days later on Christmas Day, Claudius Francis, 54, was stabbed to death at a house in Highbury, north London. A 55-year-old man has been charged with murder.

Teenagers murdered in London in 2022:

1. Feb 7: Donovan Allen, 18, from Hemel Hempstead, Herts, stabbed to death in Enfield. Timothy Adeoye, 18, charged with murder.

2. March 15: Tyler Hurley, 16, died in hospital hours after being stabbed on board a 173 bus in Chadwell Heath. Carlton Tanueh, 18, charged with murder.

3. March 19: City University psychology student Sabita Thanwani, 19, found with serious neck injuries at hall of residence in Clerkenwell. Tunisian national Maher Maaroufe, 22, charged with murder.

4. April 13: Teon Campbell-Pitter, 16, stabbed during a fight in New Cross. Two 15-year-old boys charged with murder.

5. April 20: Rommel McKoy, 16, died in hospital 16 days after being stabbed in Brixton. Lad, 17, charged with murder.

6. June 18: Ali Baygoren, 17, stabbed in Tottenham. A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder.

7. July 16: Jeremiah Sewell, 19, died in hospital after turning up with stab injuries to his neck. The initial attack is thought to have taken place while he was sat in a car parked in Beckenham Place Park. Two teenagers arrested on suspicion of murder.

8. Aug 4: Deshaun Tuitt, 15, fatally stabbed in Highbury Fields.

9. Aug 6: Ghulam Sadiq, 18, stabbed in Leytonstone.

10. Sept 4: Shea Gordon, 17, fatally stabbed in Bow.

11. Sept 30: Kane Moses, 19, stabbed to death in Tottenham.

12. Nov 26: Charlie Bartolo, 16, knocked off a motorbike by a Nissan 4×4 vehicle and fatally stabbed in Abbey Wood.

13. Nov 26: Kearne Solanke, 16, found stabbed in Thamesmead. Police linked the attack to the fatal stabbing of Charlie Bartolo in Abbey Wood. Hussain Bah, 18 (10.06.04), and two boys, aged 15 and 16, charged with two counts of murder.

14. Boy, 16, stabbed to death in the Old Street area of north London.

Teenagers murdered in London by year:

2007: 27

2008: 29

2009: 15

2010: 19

2011: 15

2012: 8

2013: 12

2014: 11

2015: 19

2016: 12

2017: 26

2018: 24

2019: 25

2020: 17

2021: 30 [post-war record]

Anyone with information can call 101, with the reference 7708/21Dec or to remain anonymous contact independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.