Another Ghanaian Teenager Miraculously Escapes Death

After He Was Stubbed In London

Story: Nana Sifa Twum - London



A Ghanaian teenager has miraculously escaped death after a gang of teenagers pounced on him and stabbed him several times in the legs and arm.



Kwarteng Sarfo Junior of the JohnLarbough School in Tottenham was on his way home from School with friends when he saw the gang mercilessly beating a school mate.



As a Good Samaritan, Kwarteng decided to persuade the gang to spare his mate the awful attack, before he could finish the first sentence the gang turned their wrath on him and all the three youngsters who were later described by the police as black teenagers pulled knives and started stabbing him indiscriminately.



He screamed for help, but his friends for the fear of the lives, stood at a distance and watched the horrifying moments with fear and emotional anguish.



Narrating the incident Kwarteng said, within few minutes they had inflicted severe knife wounds on his arms and legs.



He said passersby hired a taxi and sent him to the North Middlesex University Hospital in North London after the knife wielding gang had absconded.



Kwarteng 14, who lives with his mother Grace and two younger sisters, said he though at the moment he was going to died. The staunch Seventh-day Adventist youngster said “it was only by the grace of God that I am still alive today.”



“I had no bad intention I only wanted to talk to them to leave the guy but little did I know they were armed and meant to cause havoc.” He said with tears.



He said “the streets of London have become extremely dangerous especially to us as teenagers” and called on the authorities to work hard to stop the menace.



He also appealed to the youth to support all programmes towards the fight against weapon crimes in the city.



The mother of Kwarteng, Grace Kwarteng Sarfo was full of praise to the Lord for the protection of her first born child and also thanked the volunteers who took Kwarteng Junior to the hospital.



A statement released by the Media and Communications Manager of the Haringey Borough of the Metropolitan Police Service, Michelle Mercer confirmed the matter and said detectives from Haringey CID Robbery Squad were investigating the matter.



It said what was deemed by the police as “an attempted robbery took place in Factory Road N17 in which a teenager received injury and lacerations.”



It said the Police were called at 1639 hours on Thursday 16 September 2010 to reports of a stabbing in N17. The officers, the statement noted attended the scene to find that the victim, a 14 year-old male, had been taken to the North Middlesex Hospital by a member of public.

“The police believed that the injuries were inflicted when the victim intervened having seen three black males attack a friend.” It said.

Enquiries are still on going but no arrests have been made yet. The police statement described the suspects as being three black males aged in their mid-teens about 5ft 8" to 5ft 10" in height.

The police are appealing to the general public to help provide information to the DC Lee Davison of Haringey CID Robbery Squad on 020 8345 0870 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111