It comes as the Home Office announced a raft of anti-knife crime plans on Wednesday, including making retailers report bulk or suspicious sales to police, and increasing the jail sentence for selling weapons to children, or illegal blades such as zombie knives, to two years.
Jason Junior Romeo died after an altercation in Bodney Road, Hackney, at around 6pm on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said.
A family friend of Mr Romeo previously told the Standard he was “vulnerable” and that she had seen him just hours before his death.
A Hackney resident who said he had known Mr Romeo for years described him as a “good guy” who “was not a trouble-maker”.
A school friend also added Mr Romeo was “like a brother” to him, adding: “He was a good kid, he didn’t deserve it...
