THREE teenagers were last night charged with murdering Ben Kinsella.

Juress Kika, 18, Michael Alleyne, 18, and Jade Braithwaite, 19, all of Islington, North London, will appear in court today accused of killing Ben, the brother of EastEnders actress Brooke.

Ben ... 'wrong postcode'

Earlier it was revealed that the 16-year-old was stabbed ELEVEN times by more than one knife.

The savagery was revealed by former Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson, whose son Louis cradled the star student as he lay dying.

Linda, who is close to Bens family, appeared on TV with his sister Brooke, 24 Kelly Taylor in the BBC soap.

Both wore K badges from a design by Ben, featured in yesterdays Sun, which is now being used in an anti-knife campaign.

Linda said: What people dont realise is that Ben was stabbed 11 times.

Thugs

Postcode ... map showing London gangs

Louis feels maybe he could have done more. He thought there was only one wound when he tried to stop him bleeding, but now we have found out there were so many stab wounds.

Louis is a bit lost really.

He went to school for an hour yesterday to see friends for a coffee, but we are looking into getting him some counselling.

I dont understand what we should be doing. I need help to help him to come to terms with this terrible thing.

Ben died in the early hours of Sunday in Islington, North London.

Police sources confirmed last night that he had been stabbed 11 times.

Ben may have been targeted after straying into the wrong postcode.

He and his family live in the N1 area.

Nineteen knife-wielding street gangs are active in and around the area where the teenager died.

They are shown in the graphic above.

A senior police adviser yesterday warned that young thugs are in an arms race.

Cindy Butts, deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said: I liken it to an arms race. The more young people see others carrying knives, the more they are inclined to carry them.