Carl Beatson, aka Charmz, was ‘funny' and ‘kind’

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AN ASPIRING rapper who was stabbed to death was on the brink of a brilliant music career, friends said today.

University student Carl Beatson Asiedu was found dying of his injuries in the back of a car by police who had stopped it for jumping a red light.

Known as Charmz, the 19-year-old was being driven by friends to hospital desperate to save his life after he was repeatedly knifed after playing a gig.

Officers called paramedics in the early hours on Saturday morning but despite efforts to save him, the teenager died at the scene near Waterloo station.

Asiedu, from Norbury, south London, was pronounced dead just after 5.30am. Officers believe he was stabbed outside Club Life nightclub in Goding Street, Kennington.

Police believe Asiedu and a friend were ambushed by a gang outside the venue.

His 19-year-old friend was also stabbed but survived. Asiedu is the 11th teenager to die violently in London this year - eight of whom have been knifed (see right).

"He had no problem with anyone and no one hated him. He was funny, and, hence his nickname, charming."

Today friends described the teenager as “funny” and “charming” and said they will pay tribute to him by promoting his first record and raising awareness of knife crime. More than 3,000 have joined a memorial page to him on Facebook.

His friend Christopher Coco told thelondonpaper that a group were working with a production company to make a professional music video with an anti-knife crime message as tribute.

Coco said: “Charmz loved music. It’s what he would have wanted. His life was cut short and it wouldn’t be fair if we didn’t push his first single on MTV Base. I want the video to be finished before his funeral so that we can raise money to support his family.

“Charmz was very popular,” he added. “He had no problem with anyone and no one hated him. He was funny, and, hence his nickname, charming.”

Asiedu grew up in the capital and had just finished his first year at De Montfort University in Leicester.

In his spare time, he performed as half of a music-duo known as Kid n Play at events and universities across London and the Midlands.

On the night Asiedu was killed, the student was performing on stage as Kid n Play at Club Life, said Coco.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder and have been bailed pending further enquiries.