'My son was protecting friend'

The mother of a lifeguard stabbed to death at a bus stop has told how her son was murdered trying to protect his friend.

Terry Gregory, 19, was stabbed through the heart in front of his girlfriend Louise Reed, 16, and his friend Sam Nelson in Woolwich early on Sunday morning.

Detectives believe the killer first attacked Mr Nelson, 19, in a dispute over an umbrella, and Mr Gregory stepped in.

His mother Sue, 46, said: "Terry intervened because he was much bigger than his friend and knew his pal needed his help."

She told how her son, a lifeguard at Eltham Leisure Centre, saved a child's life three months ago. "He saved a little boy. Now someone has taken Terry away from us."