A private school pupil was stabbed to death by a teenage boy in south London after she rejected flowers from him, The Telegraph understands.
Witnesses said the 15-year-old girl was travelling to school in Croydon when a row broke out between the victim, her friends and other pupils from a local school.
The argument is said to have spilled out of the bus and onto the pavement outside a shopping centre, where the schoolgirl was attacked by a young man “wielding a sword-like knife” and “wearing all black” at around 8.30am on Wednesday.
Paramedics rushed to the town centre but the teenager, described as having “a fantastic future ahead of her”, died at the scene.
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy nearby around 75 minutes after the attack took place. The boy and the girl are understood to have been known to each other.
