A man is to appear in court charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy.

Lincoln Olaribigbe, 23, of Leamington House, Stonegrove, Edgware, was re-arrested on Wednesday and charged yesterday with the murder of Joel Adesina.

He will appear in custody at Thames Magistrates’ Court today.

On December 5 2014, at approximately 11.05pm, the Metropolitan Police was called by London Ambulance Service to Bethnal Green Road, east London, after a teenager was stabbed.

Officers found a 15-year-old boy suffering from serious stab injuries to the abdomen.

He was taken by ambulance to an east London hospital, where he died at 2.12am on December 6.

He was formally identified as Joel Adesina, 15, of Dagenham.

A post-mortem gave cause of death as stab wound to the liver.