Chiswick teen robbed youngsters four days before stabbing a 15-year-old boy

The 14-year-old attacker, who cannot be named for legal reasons, robbed a group of youngsters with a knife just days before stabbing 15-year-old Toni Hamilton-Boyer six times.

It emerged this week that he had been tagged by police when he carried out the vicious daylight attack on Toni in an Isleworth park.

Toni’s mum Lauren told the Hounslow and Brentford Times the 14-year-old boy was a known troublemaker in the community and said she was not surprised to learn about his offences before the attack on her son. Toni is still not back at school because of fears for his safety.

“It was a timebomb waiting to happen,” she said.

“It was just a matter of who was going to get it. That boy has ruined my life and my son’s.”

The 14-year-old, from Chiswick, admitted three counts of robbery and possession of an offensive weapon, at Brentford Youth Court on Monday.

A Hounslow police spokesman confirmed the persistent law-breaker had appeared at Feltham Magistrates’ Court on June 17 charged with the robberies but was granted bail on the proviso he was tagged.

When he carried out the attack on Toni - just four days after the robbery and two days after his court appearance for robbery - he was being electronically monitored by police to ensure he obeyed a nightly curfew order.

He stabbed Toni six times in the chest behind Isleworth library, in Redlees Park - an attack he pleaded guilty to at Isleworth Crown Court last month.

It also emerged this week that the teen had been convicted of actual bodily harm earlier this year after punching a McDonalds worker in the face, in Chiswick.

Last month he admitted assault, grievous bodily harm and another charge of possessing an offensive weapon.

The 14-year-old is to be sentenced for his string of offences at Isleworth Crown Court, on December 11.

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