teenage boy was able to flee the country when police officers

A suspect in the killing of a teenage boy was able to flee the country when police officers failed to alert border and immigration control of his identity. Ilyas Habibi was attacked just minutes after leaving Sutton train station on 5 December last year, suffering a fatal knife wound to the neck while he was travelling home from college. However, the prime suspect in the murder was able to leave the UK via Gatwick Airport four days later, with Mr Habibi’s family told that there had been an “error with the computers” which had allowed him to escape. The man is believed to have fled to a country in the Middle East and has not been named at request of the Met Police. In an even more sinister twist, the family say the alleged killer has recently made contact with Ilyas’ older brother, joking about how he left the 17-year-old “choking” on his own blood.