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16-year-old fatally stabbed in Newcastle

4 mai 2007, 00:00

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Police have opened a murder inquiry after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Newcastle.

Northumbria police said the teenager was found with a stab wound to his neck late at night on Wednesday on a street corner in the west end of the city.

He was taken to Newcastle General Hospital but died later. Police believe there were a number of people in the area at the time of the attack who may have seen what happened.

A post-mortem was carried out later yesterday. The death is the latest in a spate of knife murders of young men in inner cities that has shocked local communities and dominated newspaper headlines.

A senior judge this week said a growing knife culture was causing ?death and devastation? and had to be stopped.

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