Locals at the scene expressed their shock at another murder in the city.

Sarah Smith, 67, a business owner and councillor, said: "Its right across Bristol. This has been going on for a long time. After the stabbing of Eddie Kinuthia, the church was packed with young people.

“Bristol’s segregated, but now with knife crime it’s almost like it’s become unified.

“The thing is Bristol is such a small city, we’ve always had the village mindset so there’s not much distance between the postcodes.”

Maryam, 35, who works in education and has just moved to the area said:

“It’s a bit saddening to be honest when there’s a stabbing because you just think it’s going to create disharmony.

"It doesn’t make me scared to walk home at night because I think stabbings happen all over the place.

""But it does make me wary because I’ve not noticed many stabbing, I’ve just noticed that over the last couple of months there have been a lot of stabbings happening around Bristol. So I think what worries me is the trend of the stabbings.

"It doesn’t worry me that it’s happened in this area, because I think it’s happening around Bristol in general at the moment.

"And unfortunately, it’s always going to be for poorer socio economic areas that get hit.

"But I wouldn’t necessarily say the are is unsafe, it’s usually a very community based, lovely area.”

Mustafa Abdullah, 39, who is on income support, said: “We live across, and we received information from the police and they said someone’s been stabbed.

“It’s been six (recent stabbings) it’s really scary and feels like it's happening every day.

“It can be me next. It’s really scary. It’s getting too much - it’s really bad.

"I feel like it has got less safe to live in Bristol."