London stabbing: Man charged with murder
A 29-year old man was tonight charged with murder and five counts of attempted murder following a stabbing spree, Britain's Scotland Yard said.
Ismail Dogan, unemployed, of Birkbeck Road, Tottenham, north London is charged with murdering Ernest Meads in Advent Way, Edmonton yesterday.
He will appear in custody at Highbury Magistrates Court on Monday.
Yesterday’s violence lasted around an hour.
All five people injured were tonight said by police to be in a stable condition.
The first attack happened outside Edmonton Green railway station.
The victim, aged 31, had just said goodbye to his girlfriend and was heading to work. He was stabbed at 8.20am, and staggered up to the station before collapsing on a bench.
At 8.50am a 49-year-old man was stabbed in nearby Gladstone Avenue.
Another victim, a 30-year-old woman, was knifed at 9.07am as she cycled in Compton Crescent.
She later had heart surgery at the London Heart Hospital.
A 50-year-old man was stabbed several times in the side in Ecclesbourne Gardens at 9.11am.
At 9.27am, Mr Meads, 58, was found in Advent Way after he stumbled into the offices of a delivery company. He later died.
Then, at 10.45am, a 76-year-old man walked into North Middlesex hospital, having been stabbed more than an hour earlier in Empire Avenue.
The attack unfolded over an area of five square miles, and police received a flood of phone calls from the public.
Mr Meads, a masonry expert who lived in Enfield, north London, had a wife and grown-up son and daughter.
A close family friend said: “There was a big family Christmas planned which is now ruined as any sort of celebration would be inappropriate.
“Our condolences go to all the other victims’ families at this tragic time.”
