Boy, 15, in court over teenager's stabbing

LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) A 15-year-old boy will appear in court today charged with the murder of 14-year-old schoolboy Martin Dinnegan in north London earlier this week.

The youth from Islington, who has not been named, will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' court. A second man, 20, remains in custody.

Dinnegan died from stab wounds outside a chip shop in Islington on Tuesday evening, a few hundred yards from his home.

His mother Lorraine told newspapers her son had been killed after looking ''the wrong way'' at a gang of up to 20 youths.

Dinnegan's murder was the latest in a spate of knife and gun killings of teenagers in London in recent months.

His death followed that of 16-year-old Ben Hitchcock, who was fatally stabbed in Beckenham this week in a fight involving a group of youths who had tried to gatecrash a party.

Annaka Pinto, 17, was shot dead in the early hours during a fight in a bar in Tottenham, north London.

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