15-Year-Old Girl Stabbed To Death On The Way To School

A 15-year-old schoolgirl was stabbed to death on their way to school this morning, Sept. 27, by a teenage boy.

The girl, a student at Croydon’s Old Palace of John Whitgift School, was given the nickname Eliyanna by her classmates. She was attacked around 8:30 a.m. on the bus, which was less than a mile from the school gates.

Locals say they spotted a group of pupils getting off the bus near the Whitgift Centre, where a dispute between the girl, who was wearing a green school blazer, and the guy, who was wearing a black blazer, “spilt out” onto a busy pedestrian street.

Previously, it was alleged that the girl was attacked because she “refused to go out” with the lad and “rejected his offers of flowers,” however it has since been revealed that he was attempting to talk with her friend.

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Before the dispute started, the friend was trying to give the boy a bag of his belongings while he was trying to offer her flowers.

Forensic officers were looking over a love note with the phrases “special girl” and “princess” scrawled on it, as well as blood-soaked red roses.

According to Chevanice Thomas, whose friend claims to have witnessed the stabbing, the girl rejected flowers from the boy moments before he assaulted her with a knife that resembled “a sword,” according to DailyMail. Another witness stated that she overheard a girl say she “didn’t want to go out with him anymore.”

The bus driver and a passenger attempted everything they could to save the girl’s life, but she died on the spot at 9.21 a.m.

According to community worker James Watkins, the family of the 15-year-old was alerted to the scene this morning but were “unable to make it” in time to say goodbye to their daughter.

The Old Palace of John Whitgift School is an independent day school for girls aged three to eighteen. It is a sister school of Whitgift School for Boys and is frequently recognized as one of the best in London. It is unknown which school the boy attended.