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This (top left) is 16-year-old Samuel Adelagun. He is the sixteenth teenager to be murdered in London this year.

Adelagun was shot dead in Plaistow, East London, on Saturday.

In September, Rio McFarlane was shot in Peckham, South London. Fourteen other teenagers have been shot or stabbed in the capital this year.

In 2009, a total of fourteen teenagers were murdered.