Neighbors said on Wednesday that an elderly man who was stabbed to death while riding his mobility scooter was surrounded by youths shortly before he was killed

At 4.06pm on Tuesday, Thomas O’Halloran, 87, was attacked in Cayton Road, Greenford, near the A40 in west London. His assailant then fled, and no arrests have been made in the capital’s sixth homicide in four days. Scotland Yard is keeping an open mind about the motive and hasn’t ruled out robbery as a possibility as they appeal for witnesses.

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I saw a couple of people gathering around him, and then he drove past and stopped further up, and then there was a group of young boys around him,” Frasley Coutinho, who lives opposite the murder scene, said.