Brawl 'over girl' ends in fatal stabbing

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A suspected teenage gang member was stabbed to death on the day David Cameron pledged to "wage war" on the "disease" of gang culture blighting the capital.

Kelvin Chibueze, 17, was knifed repeatedly when two gangs clashed at a party in east London.
About 20 youths were seen fighting with bottles before the teenager, known as Boss Don Gramz, was stabbed.

He is understood to have been a members of the Dagenham Boys, and friends with Olukorede Fajinmi, 17, who was stabbed in the heart during a fight with the Harts Lane Gang in Beckton last year. He was the ninth teenager to be killed in London this year and the eighth to be stabbed to death.

Yesterday's attack came as the Prime Minister vowed to wage an "all-out war on gangs".
The killing happened at around 4am in Ilford when youths spilled out of a house party into the high street, yards from a police station.

The fight, thought to have been sparked by comments over a girl, moved to a car park, where gang members were seen calling for reinforcements. Kelvin died at the Royal London Hospital.

Suresh Tharamaraj, 33, owner of a nearby newsagents, said: "There were lots of people running round. They were all calling their friends." Det Chief Insp John McDonald, leading the murder inquiry, said: "My appeal is to the public who may have seen what was going on to contact us and also anyone involved in these two groups to come forward."

Mr Chibueze's mother, Tina, was today being comforted by friends and family at her home in Croydon.

Neighbours said she became hysterical when told the news, ran onto a bus and had to be fetched by her daughter.

Friends of the teenager warned on social networking sites of more bloodshed.

No one has been arrested.

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