May she rest in peace. This happend saturday may 31st. Two men have been arrested. Have you guys heard anything new
Insane. this must mean thereโs a storyAUN. I heard the 2 men that were arrested on suspicion of murder are now out on bail. May Allah provide her and her family with justice.
It said it in the article as well. Murder suspects getting bailed out will always seem crazy to me.AUN. I heard the 2 men that were arrested on suspicion of murder are now out on bail. May Allah provide her and her family with justice.
Ilaahay ha u naxariisto. May the perpetrators be punished both here and the afterlifeMay she rest in peace. This happend saturday may 31st. Two men have been arrested. Have you guys heard anything new
AmiinAUN may allah give her jannah inshallah
Tuesday June 3, 2025
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26-year-old Marjama Osman, a Somali-British woman from Croydon, was fatally stabbed in South London on May 31, 2025. Police have launched a murder investigation into her death. Credit: Met Police
LONDON, United Kingdom (HOL) โ British police have launched a murder investigation after 26-year-old Marjama Osman, a Somali-British woman, was fatally stabbed in Croydon on Saturday morningโa killing that has reignited concern over rising knife violence affecting Somali youth in the UK.
Police have named the woman killed in a weekend stabbing in Croydon as Marjama Osman, a 26-year-old Somali-British resident known by neighbours as โMJ.โ
Metropolitan Police officers were called to Frith Road at 9:07 a.m. Saturday, after reports of a disturbance. Detectives believe Osman was assaulted inside her flat before staggering into the street, where she collapsed with a single stab wound. Paramedics and Londonโs Air Ambulance pronounced her dead at the scene.
Police believe Osman was likely assaulted inside her residence before staggering into the road.
Two men, ages 33 and 32, were arrested on suspicion of murder โ the first at the scene, the second on Sunday. Both have been released on bail while the Metโs Specialist Crime Command continues its investigation.
Police are asking anyone who saw activity near Osmanโs flat or along Frith Road on Saturday morning to come forward.
โWe appreciate that this tragic incident has caused real concern within the community in Croydon,โ Detective Chief Inspector Dave Whellams said. โOur priority at the moment is to continue gathering the evidence we need to hold whoever is responsible for Marjamaโs death to account, whilst supporting her family at this difficult time.โ
โWe appreciate that there is speculation within the local community around Marjamaโs death,โ Whellams continued. โI would encourage anyone who may have heard anything concerning her death to contact us. These conversations within the community could lead us to getting the justice Marjama deserves.โ
Nearby shopfront cameras and dash-cams may hold crucial footage, Whellams added, urging anyone who recorded images between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. to contact investigators at 101, reference 2240/31MAY, or anonymously via Crimestoppers.
Superintendent Mitch Carr, head of Croydon policing, thanked bystanders โ including a teenage boy โ who tried to help the victim.
Friends and neighbours described Osman, known affectionately as โMJ,โ as โbubbly,โ โkind,โ and someone who always smiled at the children.
โShe always made a big fuss of my baby. She was just so nice and seemed to like children,โ Isabella Mularz, a neighbour in the same building, told Metro UK.
She told local media that they had heard a heated argument between three people shortly before the attack.
โI heard her screaming โhelp, help, help.โ She was banging on the door of a flat,โ Mularz said. โOne of the other neighbours called the police. I came out and saw her lying there bleedingโit has affected me very deeply.โ
The fatal stabbing took place just steps from Surrey Street Market, where shopkeepers and business owners say community safety has deteriorated.
Jose Joseph, chair of the Croydon Business Association, has reportedly requested an urgent meeting with the borough commander to discuss rising violence in the area.
Osmanโs death is the latest in a series of knife killings that have disproportionately hit Britainโs Somali community. Advocacy groups say Somalis accounted for roughly 10 percent of Londonโs 1,299 male youth homicides in 2017-18, a figure that has galvanized parents, community leaders, and lawmakers to seek stricter prevention measures.
In recent years, Somali families across the UK have sent their children back to East Africaโparticularly Kenya and Somalilandโin an attempt to shield them from gang violence and the influence of so-called โpostcode wars.โ Some see it as the only way to keep their sons and daughters safe.
โWe raise our children in this country, and still, they are not safe,โ said one mother at a Croydon vigil. โWe are grievingโbut we are also angry.โ