Police have named the victim of a fatal stabbing in Streatham, two days after a man was charged with murder.
A murder investigation was launched on Sunday, after a 19-year-old reportedly stumbled from a property on Hopton Road and collapsed with serious stab wounds. Police were called at around 3.50pm and the teenager was pronounced dead within an hour.
The victim has been named as Sabri Chibani, from Streatham, following a post-mortem examination on Tuesday. The cause of death was a single stab wound to the chest, and his next of kin have been informed.
Ronny Padilla, 23, of Hopton Road, Streatham, was charged with murder earlier this week. He has been remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday, May 3, for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
The Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating.
Witnesses described how a young man, thought to be his brother, battled to save Mr Chibani before he was pronounced dead at the scene at 3.50pm on Sunday, 40 minutes after the attack.
The teenager’s father Munir, who was expected to fly to London, today told how he first thought his son had died in a road accident.
Mr Chibani’s friends also paid tribute to the “easygoing and friendly” teenager, describing how he “never had any problems with anybody”.
Mr Chibani, a former youth team football player whose family migrated to Italy from Tunisia, grew up in Piacenza, a city 70km south-west of Milan in northern Italy. He graduated from the Marconi Industrial Technical Institute last year with a diploma in electronics. He followed his brother to London in November in search of a job and was said to be working as a bar tender at the time of his death.
Mr Chibani’s former football team Spes Borgotrebbia have announced a minute’s silence in his honour before their next fixture.
