{"id":430402,"date":"2026-02-17T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430402\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:49:07","slug":"croydon-retail-park-stabbing-victim-was-caring-and-smart-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430402\/","title":{"rendered":"Croydon retail park stabbing victim was &#8216;caring and smart man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who was killed in a stabbing in south London was &#8220;a caring, smart young man with a good sense of humour and his whole future ahead of him&#8221;, his family has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lorik Abazi, 22, from Croydon, was found with stab wounds on the Valley Retail Park on Hesterman Way, Croydon, at about 01:15 GMT on Sunday and died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two women, both aged 25, and a 28-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of murder on Sunday afternoon. One of the women has been released on bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the family said: &#8220;We, his parents, brother, girlfriend, grandparents and extended family and friends, loved him very much. A light has gone out in our lives, and we are devastated beyond words by his loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was killed in a stabbing in south London was &#8220;a caring, smart young man with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-430402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}