In news that's becoming increasingly common, 27-year-old youth worker and aspiring actor Nashon Esbrand was tragically murdered in North London last August by three gang members who mistakenly thought he had 'grassed' to police about them. 

Three people — 19-year-old Dillon Zambon, 18-year-old Jhon Berhane, and a 16-year-old who cannot be named — were sentenced earlier this month for a total of 54 years, with two more suspects on the run from police.

Esbrand, who was also a carer for his mother, had been harassed by the gang for some time — they even waited outside his mother's home to intimidate them both — before they cornered him and stabbed him to death in Canonbury.

In the weeks leading up to his death, Esbrand and his mother had made repeated pleas to police, urging them to protect him from the gang. Those pleas, it's being reported, ultimately fell on deaf ears and now police are facing an internal investigation.

Whether or not the investigation actually achieves anything remains to be seen, but this is a worrying addition to an already alarming rate of violence in London.