Police were yards away when Harry Pitman was stabbed to death

A teenage boy stabbed 16-year-old Harry Pitman to death with a hunting knife after a fight on New Year’s Eve, a court heard. Harry was knifed ‘within yards’ of police officers attending the fireworks display at north London’s Primrose Hill. Medics desperately tried to save Harry but he was pronounced dead just 20 minutes before midnight. There were police officers just yards away when the stabbing took place but the accused killer was not arrested at the scene, the Old…