Three people have been stabbed while 15 officers have been assaulted and 90 people have been arrested on opening ‘Family Day’ of this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, the Metropolitan Police said in the latest update.
The Met said they are aware of three stabbings which have seen a 32-year-old woman in hospital in a life-threatening condition and a 29-year-old man in hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The condition of a 24-year-old man who was stabbed in currently unknown.
The 90 arrests made so far are for the following offences: four sexual offences, 10 assaults on emergency workers, 18 possessions of an offensive weapon, eight possessions of class A drugs, 13 possessions of class B drugs, five possessions of other drugs, four possessions of nitrous oxide, eight possessions of drugs with intent to supply, one theft, six assaults, four robberies, one public order offence and eight ‘other offences’.
Fortunately, none of the 15 police officers that have been assaulted have…