Man 'stabbed burglar to death'

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The man, who is in his early twenties, was arrested after he attacked the 17-year-old boy, who was said to have been breaking in to the house with two other youths.

Nottinghamshire Police said that they were called to the house in Heathfield Road, Nottingham, at 2pm on Friday after reports of a disturbance.

The boy was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre but died from his injuries, police said.

A second man, also in his twenties and who according to police has an association with the house, is under arrest.

The boy's accomplices in the alleged burglary were also arrested.

A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said: "In an effort to establish the circumstances which led up to this death, we would ask anyone who was in and around Heathfield Road at 2pm on March 13 to cast their minds back to see if they can remember anyone acting suspiciously."

The semi-detached red-brick property was cordoned off with police tape.

Fazal Khan, a 33-year-old computer technician who lives close to where the attack happened, said: "We heard there had been a burglary and when we came down here the police had blocked it off all the way. My wife was here and the police told her that the house had been burgled. We have been burgled as well last month so that's two burglaries in three or four weeks."

He added: "They are good people who live in that house. They are very co-operative and nice. When somebody broke into our house the lady came round because we were not at home and called the police and the police called my wife and she came home. I cannot say it is a nice area because someone set fire to the bushes in my front garden. We have had problems two or three times."