Man in wheelchair stabbed to death in east London

Ms Barnett, 45, from Hackney, explained that her brother had lived in Clapton with his mother, but his friends said he had moved to the Stratford area.

“He comes around here [Clapton] all the time, everyone knew my brother – young, old, mothers, fathers, everybody knew my brother,” she said.

“Everybody is family, he’s just that character.”

Mr Barnett’s friends say he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2007.

On Wednesday evening, a black and grey electric wheelchair could be seen behind the police cordon close to a forensics tent at the scene.

The wheelchair and tent are on Overbury Street, overlooked by a housing estate, with the cordon stretching on to Rushmore Road.