Woodside Park 'murder': Man stabbed to death "over £120 debt" on North London street corner
His girlfriend cradled his head as he lay dying crying "I love you"
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A man in his twenties has been stabbed to death by a group of men in front of his girlfriend on leafy North London street.
Witnesses said the victim had been in a row with a man over a £120 debt minutes before three men turned up in a car and surrounded him.
The victim has been named by friends as Ali Nasro aged 22, Evening Standard reports
His girlfriend cradled his head as he lay dying crying "I love you".
The man was slashed across his chest after being beaten up by the group.
The Metropolitan Police has launched a murder investigation and are appealing for witnesses.
Paramedics treated the victim for a single stab wound and he was rushed to hospital, although he died a short while later.
Police and the London Ambulance Service were called to the scene at the junction of Woodside Grange Road and Grange Way at around 2.43pm.
A witness said: “You could hear shouting. They were saying ‘you were supposed to give me my £120, ‘why didn’t you bring my £120?’
“Then three men turned up in a car and they all got into an argument. One of them then slashed him across the chest.
“I ran out with tea towels and tried to save him by putting pressure on his chest wound.
The witness added: "By this time his girlfriend had got out of the car when she saw him staggering away, and was just screaming and screaming ‘they have stabbed him’, and while he was on the floor she was screaming ‘Ali I love you, I love you Ali’.
"She was praying there on the floor next to him and reciting the Koran while he was in and out of consciousness.
"It was terrible. I couldn’t sleep last night, all I can see is his face."
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police's Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating the death and have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
So far no arrests have been made.
Officers are in the process of informing the man's next-of-kin and a post-mortem will take place in due course.
Witnesses or anyone with any information can call police via 101 or give information anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.