London - Eleven boys were arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor as more than 200 police officers staged a series of early-morning raids.
The suspects - eight black youths, two of Latin appearance and one white youth - were detained at various addresses in south London for questioning, Det Supt David Dillnutt told reporters at Scotland Yard. The youths arrested included two boys who were previously detained. Meanwhile, two 17-year-old youths were continuing to be questioned by police yesterday after the death of a nine-year-old boy, knocked down and killed near his home in Oxford.
The youngster, Ross Doyle, was struck by a Vauxhall car on the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford at 8.45 p.m. on Wednesday.