16-year-old has been charged with the homicide of a 17-year-old who was stabbed to loss of life in Brighton.
The boy, who can’t be named due to his age, is to seem at Brighton Youth Court docket on Tuesday in reference to the loss of life of Mustafa Momand.
{The teenager} was pronounced useless in hospital following the incident final Thursday.
A Sussex Police spokesman mentioned on Monday: “The Crown Prosecution Service has this night (9 October) authorised a cost of homicide in opposition to a 16-year-old boy from Southwick.
“The defendant, who can’t be named for authorized causes, stays remanded in custody and is scheduled to seem earlier than Brighton Youth Court docket on Tuesday morning (10 October).
“It follows the deadly stabbing of 17-year-old Mustafa Momand in Queens Street, Brighton, round 5pm on Thursday 5 October.
“The suspect was arrested that very same night within the Moulsecoomb space.”
Our ideas stay with the sufferer’s household, who proceed to be supported by officers at this tough time
Senior investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Alex Campbell mentioned: “Our ideas stay with the sufferer’s household, who proceed to be supported by officers at this tough time.
“This can be a fast-moving investigation and our efforts to determine the precise circumstances of what occurred that day are ongoing.
“We all know {that a} weapon – believed to be a knife – was used within the assault, and, regardless of intensive searches of the world, we’ve to this point been unable to hint it.
“I might due to this fact urge anybody within the neighborhood of Queens Street or The Avenue, Moulsecoomb, to please test their gardens, bins or outbuildings for any indicators of a discarded weapon, and for those who see something, please report it to us instantly.”