Boxing Day horror in JD Sports as staff fight to save man stabbed in ‘postcode war’ – Daily Mail

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This is the horrific moment staff fought to save the life of a teenager who was stabbed in front of Boxing Day shoppers in a ‘postcode war’ attack.

The victim, thought to be 15 years old, lies on the floor of the JD Sports on Mare Street, Hackney, as onlookers try to stem his wounds.

A man is heard shouting ‘for what?’ as the teenager waited for an air ambulance to take him to hospital.  

The victim is thought to be 15 years old, and was found outside the shop on Mare Street, Hackney, and taken to hospital by air ambulance

A police spokesperson said: ‘Police were called around 2.35pm to reports of a male stabbed

A police spokesperson said: ‘Police were called around 2.35pm to reports of a male stabbed at JD Sports in Mare Street. 

‘Officers attended and found a male with stab wounds. 

‘The victim was taken to a hospital in east London and officers are awaiting an update on his condition.’ No one has been arrested and the police are investigating. 

Video posted on Twitter by @ShulemStern shows a medical helicopter taking off from Hackney Downs at around 3.30pm.  

The footage of the victim lying inside the shop was posted on a private Twitter account with the caption, ‘Senseless “postcode war” stabbing just now’.

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ‘We were called at 2.33pm to reports of a stabbing at Mare Street, Hackney.

‘We sent a single responder in a car and an incident response officer to the scene. London’s Air Ambulance was also dispatched.

Video posted on Twitter by @ShulemStern shows a medical helicopter taking off from Hackney Downs at around 3.30pm

A police spokesman said: ‘The victim was taken to a hospital in east London and officers are awaiting an update on his condition’

‘We treated a man at the scene and took him as a priority to hospital.’ 

It is the second stabbing in Hackney in two days. On Christmas Day, a man in his mid-20s was attacked on Upper Clapton Road. 

His injuries were not expected to be life threatening.