A BOY has been charged with the homicide of a ”fun-loving” teen who was stabbed to loss of life on New Yr’s Eve.
Harry Pitman, 16, tragically died whereas crowds gathered on London’s Primrose Hill to look at town’s 2024 fireworks show.
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Medics had labored to save lots of the teenager after he was understood to have been knifed throughout a struggle.
Devastatingly, ”vibrant” Harry was pronounced lifeless simply 20 minutes earlier than midnight.
The Crown Prosecution Service at present mentioned a 16-year-old had been charged with Harry’s homicide.
It got here after three teenagers have been arrested and quizzed over the assault on the schoolboy.
Within the wake of his loss of life, the teenager’s grandad described him as a ”cheeky chappy” with ”vivid ginger hair he wore like a badge of honour”.
Talking exterior his house in Tottenham, Philip Woolveridge, 59, mentioned: ”I can not categorical how devastated we’re as a household.
“Transferring ahead goes to be a gradual course of. I simply can’t imagine he is now not right here. I am offended. I am very offended.
“He was actually humorous. Rising up, we sorted the kids for some time and he was like Velcro to me.
”He was a stunning baby. He was a fun-loving baby, at all times laughing and joking.
”Each New Yr’s Eve goes to be a reminder of this now.”
Detective Chief Inspector Geoff Grogan, who’s main the investigation, mentioned in latest days: “Harry’s household is devastated. He was a vibrant younger man who ought to have had his life forward of him.
”We proceed to assist them as they battle to return to phrases with their loss.”