A murder investigation has been launched after a ‘true gentleman bus driver’ in his fifties was stabbed to death while ‘walking home with his shopping’.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Police were called at around 11.05pm on Tuesday, 30 July, to reports of a man named locally as Derick Thomas suffering a stab injury on Northwold Road in Hackney, northeast London.
Officers and London Ambulance Service attended but despite their best efforts the man, believed aged in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
His next of kin have been informed. A post mortem examination will be scheduled in due course.
There have been no arrests and officers are continuing to investigate the circumstances.
