A 27-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Finbar Sullivan, the London film student fatally stabbed at one of the capital’s best-known beauty spots earlier this week.
Oluwadamilola Ogunyankinnu, of Southbury Road in Enfield, was arrested by Metropolitan Police officers on Friday and formally charged on Sunday. He is expected to appear before Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
What police have said about the investigation
Mr Sullivan, who was 21, was discovered with knife injuries close to the viewing platform at Primrose Hill in north London on Tuesday. A second man in his twenties was found a short distance away on Regent’s Park Road with stab wounds the same day. He was taken to hospital, where doctors determined his injuries were neither life-threatening nor likely to cause lasting harm.
A 25-year-old man initially detained on suspicion of assisting an offender has since been released without further action, according to the Metropolitan Police. Detectives have stressed that their inquiries are continuing.
A family’s tribute to ‘Fin’
Mr Sullivan was studying at the London Screen Academy and was known to those closest to him simply as Fin. His father, Chris Sullivan, 65, spoke of his loss in an interview with BBC London, describing his only son as a young man who left a deep impression on everyone around him.
“All of his friends said he was the light, the leader,” he said. “His friends’ parents loved him. This is why it’s so tragic.”
