Family pay tribute to ‘beautiful’ boy, 16, stabbed to death yards from his home

A ‘beautiful’ teenager stabbed to death only a few yards from his home in Edmonton, north London, has been named.

Taye Faik, 16, died in the Kendal Gardens cul-de-sac after being attacked at about 11.30pm yesterday.

His uncle told MyLondon that the youngster managed to stumble back home.

Paying tribute to his ‘beautiful boy’, Altough Faik, 42, said: ‘All I can imagine is the look on his face as he was stabbed, I keep playing it over in my mind.’

‘All I can imagine is the look on his face as he was stabbed. I keep playing it over and over in my mind.’

Kendal Garden local Fitzroy Fuller, 64, said she spotted 11 police cars, four vans and two ambulances attending the scene.

Fuller said: ‘It’s quite disturbing that there are people capable of doing such a thing.’

No arrests have been made amid a murder investigation. The area remained cordoned off as of this morning.

Detective Chief Superintendent Caroline Haines, the senior officer responsible for the Met’s North Area BCU, said in a statement earlier today: ‘I thank local people for their patience as police have worked through the night.

‘They will continue to see a police presence and ongoing activity in their neighbourhood in the coming days, and I encourage people in the community to speak with those officers if they have any information or concerns that they wish to share.

‘My thoughts and most sincere sympathies are with the family and friends of the victim. The family will be supported by dedicated police officers throughout the unimaginably difficult days and months ahead.

‘We will be there for them, and I can assure them that skilled and tenacious detectives will be working to bring to justice whoever was responsible for this terrible crime.’

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