Mon 01 July 2019:
Child was delivered by paramedics after pregnant mother was stabbed to death
A baby boy delivered by paramedics after his heavily-pregnant mother was stabbed to death faced a struggle for survival on Monday after a weekend of attacks that have re-focused attention on violence in London. The baby boy was delivered by emergency staff who were called to the south London home of Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was found with fatal wounds. Family told British media that the baby’s chances of survival were 50/50. Ms Fauvrelle, who was eight months pregnant, had posted scan pictures of the unborn baby online before she was killed. “Happy Valentine’s sweet pea… we can’t wait to meet you,” she wrote in February.
Police arrested two men aged 37 and 29 after the murder but both have been released pending further investigations. Police said the motive for the killing was not clear. Her brother Stephan described the victim on Facebook as a “beautiful person” while her aunt Rosa was reported as saying that she had been desperate to be a mother. “That’s all she wanted. When she found out she was pregnant I think that really lifted her spirits,” the Mirror reported her as saying. “Being a mum was all she dreamed about.”
The death of Ms Fauvrelle, a postal worker and one of four people killed in the capital over the weekend, had left her colleagues in total shock, according to a union leader. He called for an end to police budget cuts. “Yet another loss of innocent life is utterly sickening. It is clear the gang culture and environment across the UK but particularly in London has reached a level where it just cannot go on,” said Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, in a statement posted on Twitter.
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan said over the weekend that the murder highlighted the scale of the problem faced by the authorities in tackling violent crime. Knife crime in England and Wales rose to record levels in 2017-18 with the number of fatal stabbings, 285, the highest in a year since records began in 1946. Ministers have blamed the rise in violence on disputes between drug gangs. Police leaders have pointed to swingeing budget cuts to the service by current prime minister Theresa May, while she was home secretary for six years from 2010.
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