More than 100 teenagers have been violently killed in the UK in 2007-08 (the vast majority in London), including victims of domestic violence and straightforward assault as well as gang-related deaths, BBC research has found.
The BBC News website has gathered information from police forces around the UK on every reported case of murder and manslaughter (homicide) in the 10-19 age group.
Figures include deaths resulting from apparent domestic incidents and straightforward assaults as well as gang-related violence.
In a year in which gangs and knife crime have featured regularly in headlines, collating and mapping the full information revealed that most police forces had not seen a case of teenage homicide.
The deaths were concentrated in a handful of locations with London suffering the highest number of young victims.
Other forces which reported multiple killings include Greater Manchester with five deaths; West Yorkshire, Merseyside and Strathclyde with four each and the West Midlands and South Yorkshire with three.
Official homicide statistics do not usually show 10-19 year-olds as a separate age group.
Instead they are split into 5-15 year-olds and 16-29 year-olds and the data is expressed as a rate per 1,000 of the population.
But Home Office figures supplied to BBC News indicate that the number of teen killings in England and Wales has remained largely stable in recent years.
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London teen murders have doubled since 2006 and trebled since 2005. The faces above are just some of those incidents that were linked by the media to gangs where the victim was either a gang member or associate, although more commonly an innocent victim caught up.
Amongst the victims were,
David Nowak, 16, from Hackney east/north London
Devoe Roach, 17, from Hackney east/north London
Etem Celebi, 17, from Hackney east/north London
Shaquille Smith, 16, from Hackney east/north London
Abu Shahin, 18, from Newham east London
Adam Regis, 15, from Newham east London
Rizwan Darbar, 17, from Newham east London
Charles Junior Hendricks, 18, from Waltham Forest east London
Mohammed Ahmed, 17, from Waltham Forest east London
Paul Erahon, 14, from Waltham Forest east London
Shaarmake Hassan, 17, from Camden north London
Annaka Pinto, 17, from Edmonton north London
Henri Bolombi, 18, from Edmonton north London
Mudianga Boduka, 18, from Edmonton north London
Ofiyke Nmezu, 16, from Edmonton north London
Dean Lahlou, 18, from Haringey north London
Martin Dinnegan, 14, from Islington north London
Faridon Alizada, 18, from Bexley south London
Ben Hitchcock, 16, from Bromley south London
Shakilus Townsend, 16, from Croydon south London
Sunday Essiet, 15, from Greenwich south London
Abukar Mahumud, 16, from Lambeth south London
Billy Cox, 15, from Lambeth south London
Dwaine Douglas, 18, from Lambeth south London
Frederick Boateng, 18, from Lambeth south London
James Smart-Forde, 16, from Lambeth south London
Nathan Foster, 18, from Lambeth south London
Nicholas Clarke, 19, from Lambeth south London
Ryan Bravo, 18, from Lambeth south London
Edvin Johnson, 19, from Southwark south London
Melvin Bryan, 18, from Southwark south London
Michael Dosunmu, 15, from Southwark south London
Philip Poru, 18, from Southwark south London
Fuad Buraleh, 18, from Ealing west London
Kodjo Yenga, 16, from Hammersmith & Fulham west London
Amro Elbadawi, 14, from Westminster west London
Jevon Henry, 18, from Westminster west London
