London recorded no killings of under-25s across July and August, the lowest for 22 years. Four teenagers were murdered in 2025 by August, down from nine at the same point in 2024 and on track for a 13-year low. Overall homicides since January totalled 58, a 25.6% reduction from 78 in the same period of 2024. Specialist police teams have targeted organised crime and county lines, resulting in hundreds of arrests and weapons seizures. However, domestic-related murders rose to 20, a 54% increase on 12 by August 25 last year. Homicides are at multi-year lows, but some categories have increased.
Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley has insisted London's streets are safer after no teenagers were murdered across the school summer holidays. More specialist teams are disrupting organised crime groups exploiting youngsters to get them involved in drug dealing and county lines. Hundreds of arrests have been made and weapons seized. City Hall said provisional figures show that there were no killings of under-25s in London across July and August, the lowest for 22 years.
Four teenagers have been murdered in 2025 so far, compared to nine at the same point last year a year when 11 died in total. Last year saw the fewest number of teenage killings since 2012 when eight died across the whole 12 months. This year's statistics put the Met on target for at least a 13-year low in youth murders.
Of all sexes and ages, there have been just 58 killings since January compared to 78 in the same eight-month period of 2024, a 25.6 per cent reduction. The highest was 149 in 2003. But this only tells part of 2025's story, as 20 domestic-related murders is a 54 per cent rise on the 12 by August 25 last year, according to seperate Met figures.
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