First picture of boy, 15, stabbed to death after ‘large crowd spotted with machetes’

Brayan David Saldarriaga was stabbed to death near a Hackney canal path (Picture: Met Police/North News)

A teenager has been charged with murder after a boy was knifed to death on an east London towpath.

Brayan David Saldarriaga, 15, from Haringey, died on Monday evening after being found with fatal stab wounds along the towpath near Hackney Marshes.

The fatal incident happened on the May bank holiday after reports of a large gathering of people with some carrying machetes, Met Police said.

The group were spotted on Towp...