Inside London's most benighted borough: Children stabbing classmates. A church barricaded to keep out drug gang operating from a nursery. And pavements stained red with the spat-out stimulant used by South Asian migrants: FRED KELLY ⊖

As one local resident told The Mail on Sunday, the attempted double murder - fortunately, both victims survived - was the culmination of a 'fortnight of terror' in the beleaguered borough.