More UK stabbings

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the stabbing to death of a teenager in Liverpool, Merseyside police said yesterday. Police were called to an address in the Old Swan district of Liverpool early on Saturday morning where they...

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the stabbing to death of a teenager in Liverpool, Merseyside police said yesterday.

Police were called to an address in the Old Swan district of Liverpool early on Saturday morning where they found 16-year-old Luke Howard had been stabbed. He later died in hospital.

"It appears that this incident took place following an argument at a party at this property," said Superintendent Graham Yip. In a separate incident in Liverpool on Saturday a 22-year-old man is critically ill in hospital after being stabbed in the Dovecot district of the city and a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

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