Overview
- A triple stabbing on Edgware Road around 12:50am Sunday left a man in his 20s in life‑threatening condition and a man in his 30s with life‑changing injuries, with a third man treated for minor wounds.
- In Bexleyheath just after 2am Sunday, a 30‑year‑old man was treated for a gunshot wound and taken to hospital as a 35‑year‑old was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and also taken to hospital.
- Police later said the gunshot victim in Bexleyheath is in a stable condition as officers continue urgent inquiries.
- London Ambulance Service deployed crews, fast response paramedics, an incident response officer and a trauma team from London’s Air Ambulance to the Bexleyheath scene.
- Road closures and bus diversions followed at both Broadway in Bexleyheath and Edgware Road, and police say the incidents are not thought to be linked as they also investigate an earlier Chadwell Heath air‑rifle injury with two arrests later bailed.