A teenager who lured a 17-year-old boy to a Brixton estate before launching a vicious and prolonged knife attack has admitted murder. The 17-year-old boy on Tuesday, 21 October, pleaded guilty to killing Alim Uddin following the start of his trial at the Old Bailey.
He will be sentenced on Friday, 21 November.
The court heard how the youth murdered Alim following a dispute over the sale of a £90 bike.
Police were called to Tilford House, Holmewood Gardens, Brixton on Sunday, 4 May, following reports of a stabbing.
Alim was found suffering from multiple stab wounds before being taken to a south London hospital by the London Ambulance Service where he later died.
A post-mortem examination at Greenwich mortuary and gave cause of death as multiple incised wounds.
Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, led by Detective Inspector Dave Reid, began an investigation.
Enquiries revealed the youth had lured Alim to the top floor of Tilford House with the promise of returning money Alim had previously paid him for a bike he never received.
There the victim was viciously set upon by the youth in an unprovoked attack. The defendant inflicted multiple wounds, including a stab wound to his heart.
The suspect was quickly traced by detectives on CCTV leaving the scene of the crime.
Enquiries found he fled to a relative's address in SW17 and asked for directions to a launderette. When he found this closed, he attempted to wash bloodied clothes in the bath. He was arrested at this relative's address in SW17 less than 12 hours after the murder. Forensic tests later confirmed it was Alim's blood on both the clothes and the bath.