The victim of yesterday evening's fatal stabbing has now been identified as "
Filipe".
(Source: Soraia Oliveira)
Local residents and shoppers and other regular visitors to, or users of the area of Norwood Road opposite Tulse Hill railway station will immediately recognise him as one of the more distinctive members of the local group of youths who have been involved in anti-social behavours for the past three years in and around a quarter mile radius of the precise spot where he lost his life.
While "
Filipe" might have been the "one of the funniest people you could come across" to his family and friends, it seems unlikely that the local residents and passers-by who witnessed drug dealing outside their own homes and in Parade Mews
in broad daylight, or the school children being intimidated by him and his friends every term-time afternoon on Norwood Road at the spot where he lost his life, shared this sense of hilarity around his and his friends' activities.
It is inconceivable that his family and friends - including those now making public requests for money now or laying flowers and weeping - were unaware of his activities and those of the other members of his group, and the fear and misery that it brought to others, including school children and the elderly, in the immediate area.
It is his family and friends - and the Metropolitan Police - who should now explain why the activities of "
Filipe" and his group were not stopped before this almost inevitable conclusion.