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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Yahoo
Shocking moment driver mows down cyclist during Islington street brawl
A violent incident caught on camera in north London shows the shocking moment a cyclist is run over by a car in broad daylight following a heated confrontation involving weapons. Footage filmed in Islington shows two men squaring up to each other — one brandishing what appears to be a baseball bat, the other wearing a mask and reportedly wielding a knife. The man with the bat is knocked to the ground before the clip cuts to the masked man attempting to cycle away. Moments later, he is struck by the same man, now behind the wheel of a car. Today in Islington — London & UK Street News (@CrimeLdn) May 24, 2025 Police have since confirmed they were called at 11.37am on Saturday to reports of a group of people fighting on Holloway Road. Officers attended the scene and arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with the incident. There were no reports of any injuries, the Met said. Enquiries into the circumstances are ongoing. A local councillor in Islington said: 'This kind of street violence is deeply concerning. We encourage the public to assist the police and ensure our streets remain safe.' This latest example of violence comes after another video showed a group of men with machetes throwing traffic cones and metal poles at each other in a vicious altercation outside a night club in Mayfair, North London. Four people were arrested and two sustained injures in the incident. These fights illustrate what some are calling a disturbing trend of aggressive and violent acts perpetrated across the capital, many involving dangerous and illegal weapons.
BBC News
21-05-2025
- BBC News
West End assault victim died after ankle fracture, court told
A healthy young man who suffered a fractured ankle during a "senseless" attack in London's West End died weeks later, a court has Errami, 22, was stamped on and punched in Shaftesbury Avenue on 1 June 2024 and died in hospital five weeks later after suffering cardiac arrest on a train to Paddington Station, the Old Bailey arrest was caused by a blood clot that had travelled from the site of the ankle injury to his lungs, the court was Wilson, 27, of no fixed address, Devonta Rose, 21, of Manor Park, east London, and Dennis Kaantharasan, 26, of Stratford, east London, deny Mr Errami's manslaughter. Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said: "His assailants, during an episode of late-night, senseless street violence, were these three defendants. Mr Errami did not know any of them."She told jurors that the events before, during and after the incident in Shaftesbury Avenue were caught on CCTV. The victim had provided police with an account which was recorded on the officer's body-worn camera, the court was Errami had asked the officer for help at about 01:15 BST, and said he had just been also told a paramedic on Shaftesbury Avenue that his leg had been stepped on during an assault, the court X-ray in hospital later confirmed his left ankle was fractured. It was placed in a walker boot and Mr Errami was given crutches before being discharged with advice to attend a fracture heard how patients with lower limb fractures which are immobilised in a cast or in a walking boot have an increased risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT).Ms Carberry said that Mr Errami was "a young healthy person" and did not fall into the category of a patient requiring anticoagulant drugs but was given an advice leaflet about the charge against the defendants, the prosecutor told jurors: "It is not the Crown's case that the three defendants intended to cause Mr Errami's death, or even that they intended to cause him serious physical harm, simply that they each participated in an assault which they realised might cause Mr Errami some harm."The trial at the Old Bailey continues.
