A man aged 49 is in hospital after an early-hours stabbing near Walthamstow Central station.
Police were called to Selborne Road in Walthamstow at 2.30am today (30 October), following reports of a stabbing. A 49-year-old man was found with stab wounds and taken to hospital.
His injuries were later confirmed as neither life-threatening nor life-changing.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: “Police were called to reports of a stabbing at 02:30hrs on Friday, 30 October in Selborne Road, Walthamstow. Officers attended the scene with the London Ambulance Service and located a man, aged 49, with stab injuries. He was taken to hospital, where his injuries were deemed not life-threatening nor life-changing.”
The police investigation closed an entrance to Walthamstow Central station. Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101, quoting reference 700/30OCT.
The stabbing comes on a night when police across the capital have been dealing with a series of violent incidents, including an attempted murder investigation in Plaistow after a teenager was stabbed at a Halloween party, and a Wandsworth bus passenger jailed after a false suicide vest claim that terrified fellow passengers.
