Harold Hill stabbing: Teenager 'stabbed in neck' outside college in London

A teenager has reportedly been stabbed in the neck outside a college in London.

The victim, thought to in his late teens, suffered a knife injury in Tring Gardens, Romford, near the Quarles Campus of Havering College.

The college was shut after the attack on Tuesday afternoon.

Witnesses told the Romford Recorder the victim was chased and attacked in the road outside the college and then brought into its library for treatment.

Police said no arrests have been made and enquiries continue.

One parent, who has a child at the college told the Recorder: “They said he was stabbed in the neck.

“I just wanted my son to get out of there as quick as possible. All the children were evacuated, and told to go home.

“It’s so so scary, it could have been my son, it could have been anyone’s son, I just hope he is okay.”

Police said the victim’s injuries were not life-threatening.

“Police were called at 12.22 on Tuesday to reports of a stabbing on Tring Gardens, Romford,” a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said.

“Officers attended alongside the LAS and found a male, believed to be in his late teens, suffering a stab injury.

“He was taken to a nearby hospital and his injuries have been deemed not life changing or life threatening.”

A spokesperson for London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 12:21pm today to reports of an incident on Tring Gardens, Romford.

“We sent an ambulance crew, a single responder in a car and an incident response officer to the scene. We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance.

“We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital.”

The site of the stabbing was around a mile away from where 17-year-old Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked as she listened to music with friends in a park near Harold Hill on 1 March.