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POLICE in Lawless London are investigating the EIGHTH murder in a week after a body was found dumped in undergrowth near an airfield outside the capital.
The grisly discovery in Elstree is thought to be linked to the killing of another man who was found stabbed to death in a car boot five miles away in Barnet the day before.
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Scotland Yard is investigating both deaths along with colleagues in Hertfordshire - and say they suspect Eastern European gangsters were involved.
Police say a fight broke out in nearby Mill Hill but when officers arrived everyone had fled the scene.
Minutes later they were called by paramedics to a car park near after finding a man in his 20s with knife wounds. He was taken to hospital for treatment.
They then searched a motor and discovered a man in his 30s who had also been stabbed. He died in the car.
It is feared the victim in Hertfordshire may have been wounded in the same attack and dumped outside London.
Detective Chief Inspector Simon Stancombe said of the Elstree and Barnet murders: "At these very early stages, we believe both the deceased men are Eastern European males.
"While we retain an open mind as to a motive, we cannot rule out whether there might be a potential organised criminal element.
"We also believe that the two victims might have been known to each other."
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The deaths took the total number of people murdered in London in 2019 to 148, the highest level since 2008 when 154 homicides - which covers murder and manslaughter - were recorded in the city.
A total of 26 of this year's victims have been teenagers.
In the early hours of Saturday another man, aged 29, was man stabbed to death in Newham, East London.
One man has been arrested.
On Thursday four people died in the space of 12 hours as the capital's homicide rate - already the highest in over a decade - continues to soar.
Three men were fatally stabbed in separate incidents and a 16-year-old lad was killed in Dagenham, east London.
On Tuesday, a man died two days after being knifed in a "botched" car robbery in Croydon.
Albert Amofa, 33, was knifed in the leg outside his house on Drake Road on Sunday evening.
Last Saturday night, a man in his 40s died after being stabbed at a property on Marlborough Road, Dagenham.
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A woman in her 50s was found with non-life threatening injuries and a 59-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Also on December 14, 28-year-old Dmytro Balaban was knifed and died in Brent.
Volodymyr Holovatskyi, 23, was arrested and charged with murder the following day.
In 2002 there was a spike in violent deaths with 221 recorded in the capital.
However, from 2002 onward, the figure had been steadily decreasing and in 2014 the number was as low as 94.
But since then, violent killing on the streets of the capital have soared.
This year's homicide figures include Boluwatife Oyewunmi, who was shot in 2017 but died this year.
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