Man stabbed to death while intervening in fight at illegal rave

A man has been stabbed to death while he attempted to intervene in a fight at an illegal rave. 

Sean Williams, 34, was at an unlicensed music event in Lewisham, south London, when he was killed. 

He was stabbed in the neck at around 5.30 this morning and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics at 6.19am. 

The Metropolitan Police have launched a murder inquiry and are still searching for the attacker. 

Detective Chief Inspector Kate Kieran, who is leading the ivestigation, said: ‘At this early stage we believe that both the victim and the suspect had attended an unlicensed music event at Culverley Road, SE6, during which a fight broke out between two men.

‘The victim intervened in this fight and suffered a fatal injury. I know there were around 100 people at the event and someone who was there knows the identity of the person responsible.

‘I want these people to do the right thing and get in touch. I also urge the person responsible to hand themselves into police.’

No arrests have been made, the Met said.

A second victim, 37, took himself to a south London hospital with a non-life-threatening knife injury to his hand, police added.

It came on a night of violence in the capital with at least seven other people stabbed in the city at two separate incidents.

Five men were injured — one seriously — after a ‘stabbing attack’ in Bexleyheath, while two teenagers were taken to hospital with knife wounds following a fight at an east London tube station. 

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101.

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