A pensioner who was stabbed to death on his mobility scooter has been named as 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran.
Police were called to reports of a stabbing near the A40 in west London shortly after 4pm on Tuesday (August 16).
According to witnesses, he was surrounded by a gang of youths on Cayton Road, Greenford shortly before he was killed.
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No arrests are yet to be made. The motive behind the attack is unclear at this time.
Eyewitness Frasley Coutinho said: “I saw a couple of people gathering around him and then he drove past and stopped further up, and then there was a group of young boys around him.”
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Local shop owner Hitesh Patel told the Evening Standard: “He always had a Ukraine flag on the front of his basket. It said ‘Help for Ukraine’. He was a very good, kind man.
“I saw him just before he was killed heading up to the A40 on his scooter I was filling up with petrol but I wish I had said something. His wife was also always with him in her mobility scooter.”
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