Police tonight arrested a man in connection with the murder of Jimmy Mizen, the teenager killed in a southeast London bakery at the weekend.

Jimmy, 16, bled to death at the Three Cooks bakery in Lee after suffering a cut to his throat.

A police spokesman said: “Officers arrested a 19 year-old-man. He remains in custody in a London police station.”

Detectives revealed last night that they were hunting a suspect, aged 19. A warrant for the Turkish man’s arrest was issued to all police forces in the country. The suspect is believed to be known to the Mizen family.

Police are still trying to piece together exactly what happened in the moments before the attack that left Jimmy lying in his brother Tommy’s arms, bleeding to death on a shop floor.

Jimmy’s mother, Margaret, 55, has said that she felt sorry for the killer’s parents. “I don’t feel anger, I just feel sorry for the parents, because we’ve got lovely memories of Jimmy. They will have such sorrow about their son.”

Jimmy was usually at work with his father on a Saturday, helping him in his shoe repair shop, but had been given the day off because it was his 16th birthday on Friday.

He had gone to the shop to buy his first lottery ticket when he was attacked by a youth. Witnesses said he asked Jimmy, a former altar boy, to go outside for a fight but when the teenager refused the aggressor smashed in the glass door of the bakery. Jimmy’s throat was cut with a shard of glass.

He was the thirteenth young person to be killed in London this year, compared with a total of 26 last year.

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