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Scotland Yard today opened a fifth murder investigation in six days after a man in his 30s was stabbed to death in a “full-on” knife battle on a quiet London street.

The victim was killed as two groups attacked each other with blades, chains and broomhandles in the tree-lined road of family homes in Barnet.

According to a review by the Greater London Assembly Conservatives of crime statistics, under the Labour mayor gun crime has risen by 30 per cent, knife crime has risen by 52 per cent, and homicides by 24 per cent.