Stabbing victim required surgery. A 21-YEAR-old man required surgery last week after being stabbed in the borough's busy bus station. 15 MAY 2002.

A Sri Lankan man suffered serious head injuries when he was attacked in Thornton Heath last week... Croydon Guardian 24th April 2002.

BODY-IN-PARK SUSPECTS HELD. THREE youths accused of murdering a teenager whose burnt body was found in Kingsbury Park appeared at the Old Bailey for the first time last Thursday ...9th April 2002.

Killed boy had secret plan to escape violent lifestyle (TIMES CHRONICLE SERIES)
A SRI Lankan boy whose battered and burnt body was found dumped in a park had planned to flee the borough in an attempt to escape the violent lifestyle of his friends...MARCH 27th, 2002

Park murder boy named (BBC News)
Police release the identity of an 18-year-old youth who was killed and set on fire and dumped in a park in north London....Mar 18

Police have launched a murder enquiry after a man died in an attack in the street in Wembley on Sunday 17th June 2001.

Sellathurai Balasingham, a Sri Lankan Tamil, was bludgeoned to death on November 6 last week on the housing estate in Norbury where he lived. Croydon Guardian 16th November 2001