Mourners have laid flowers and written messages in a heart-wrenching tribute to 22-year-old Kacey Clarke who was stabbed to death in Bermondsey.
Kacey was killed at a residential address in Spenlow House, off Jamaica Road at around 10pm on Christmas Eve.
A sixteen-year-old boy who was known to the victim appeared in court charged with her murder on Thursday, December 28.
One written message, attached to one of the dozens of bouquets, said: ‘R.I.E.P Beautiful girl Kaycee you will be so missed. Please look over your family and get them all through this hard time’.
Another note read: ‘KC you beautiful Angel. RIP my love you will be missed! Love you so much.’
‘To Our Beautiful Kacey many hearts are Broken from Losing you you were taken much too soon’, another griever wrote.
Old Southwark and Bermondsey MP Neil Coyle said: “This awful tragedy has happened at the very worst time of year. A family is grieving and needs space to recover.
“I’m working with them and the police and hope the rest of the community will pull together as we do best in difficult times.”
Police were called to the property on the evening of Sunday, December 24, following reports of a woman with a stab injury.
Paramedics arrived in under five minutes and provided first aid but Kacey died at the scene.
Officers arrested the sixteen-year-old a short time later on suspicion of murder.
Kacey’s family is being supported by specially trained officers and has asked that their privacy be respected at this difficult time.
Detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command are leading the investigation.