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Homerton stabbing: man charged with murder of Jerome Scott

Hackney teenager Chevaughn Chin appears in court today charged with murder

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Jerome Scott. Photograph: Met Police

A Hackney teenager has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed in Homerton on Sunday morning.

Police have named the victim of the knife attack as 39-year-old Jerome Scott of Blythe Road in Walthamstow.

Scott was found with stab wounds at an address in Morning Lane and died a short while later in hospital.

A post-mortem examination carried out on yesterday gave cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.

Chevaughn Chin, 18, of Morning Lane, has been charged with his murder and will appear at Thames Magistrates Court today.

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