Friends of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at a birthday party last night (June 23) overheard screaming and crying 'he's dead, he's dead.'

Police were called to reports of a mass brawl at a community centre in Romford at around 9.05pm where up to 100 youngsters were leaving the party.

Confronted with the large number of youths, police found a boy with stab wounds and despite the best efforts of paramedics he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Three teenage males were arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to three separate police stations in east London.

The cordon has remained in place throughout the day

A bus driver aged in his 50s was also treated for a head injury at the scene.

Witnesses claimed they saw a boy lying in the road covered in blood as they spoke of their shock, the Mirror reports.

A woman who lives close to the community centre and gave her name only as Carol said "it was chaos out here last night" and described hearing friends of the victim screaming and sobbing.

She said: "Around 9.20 I heard a lot of noise going on. For some reason it didn't sound right.

"Then I heard a lad crying down the phone 'he's dead, he's dead'.

"He was lying down in the road, there was a lot of blood.

"The police were working on him, they tried their absolute damnedest with that boy last night.

"Nobody should die like that."

Carol said there were dozens of people out on the street, with many groups "scattering" and running in different directions after the attack.

Youths had spilled onto the streets after too many people showed up to the party and the community centre stopped letting people in, Carol said.

She added that fighting appeared to break out after groups of youths traded insults.

Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are now investigating alongside officers in East Area.



