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Just days after the murder of 17-year-old Kelvin Chibueze on Monday, another London teenager is dead.

14-year-old Leroy James (left), from Edmonton, east London, was found stabbed to death in a park in Enfield.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative government is closing projects designed to prevent young people joining gangs, The Guardian reports.

Note: Don't Die Before You've Lived is a series of ongoing entries recording the murders of teenagers in London. Although not necessarily GBLT-related, the desperately premature loss of these young boys deserves our full attention. Please remember the names and faces you see here, and spare a thought for kids who really did die before they lived.

ka-os|theory is a London-based blog.