This is the first picture of a father with a “heart of gold” who was fatally stabbed in the street near his home in south-west London.
Ralph Gibson, 42, died in hospital at the weekend. He had been knifed in the back during a brawl on April 15 on an estate of family homes near Queen Mary’s hospital in Roehampton.
Three men, aged 20, 24, and 31, were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. The investigation continues.
Friends paid tribute to Mr Gibson, a self-employed painter and decorator, as Scotland Yard issued an appeal for witnesses to the attack in Huntingfield Road.
One wrote: “Ralph was so funny and had a heart of gold, absolutely so shocked.”
Four other people lost their lives to violence in little over 48 hours at the weekend. A man, 40, is in a critical condition with a police guard in hospital following the knife deaths of a baby girl and a boy, three, in a suspected murder-suicide bid in Ilford on Sunday evening.
Neighbours said the man, named locally as the children’s father Nithin Kumar, had been arguing with his wife about continuing to work during the Covid-19 crisis.
A man was stabbed to death in Canning Town on Sunday. Police believe he was attacked in Freemasons Road.
Romayne Husbands, 26, from east London, has been charged with the murder of man who died with a head injury in Hackney on Saturday.
