A man has been arrested in Leicester in connection with the murder of Jodie Chesney, who was stabbed in a park in east London on Friday.
The 17-year-old Explorer Scout was murdered in a random and unprovoked attack as she sat with her boyfriend and three other friends in a park in Harold Hill.
In a statement the force said: 'A male (no further details) was arrested in Leicester on Tuesday, March 5 in connection with the murder of Jodie Chesney, 17.
'He remains in custody at this time. Arrangements will be made to transport the male to London in due course.'
A man has been arrested in Leicester in connection with the murder of Jodie Chesney (pictured), who was stabbed in a park in east London last week
A man arrested in Leicester is thought to have travelled more than 100 miles away from London to Leicester
The arrest came after police received a tip-off the suspects travelled to the east Midlands - nearly 115 miles away - following the brutal stabbing, The Sun reported.
Police said the killer and an accomplice were spotted watching the five friends, who were socialising on Friday evening in a playground in Harold Hill.
The duo left but returned at 9.30pm wearing balaclavas and one of them, described by the Metropolitan Police as a young black male, stabbed Jodie once in the back, all without saying a word.
A friend of Jodie's said she was 'the nicest, loveliest, kindest person you could meet with everything to look forward to in life'
The pair then ran off in the direction of Romford Road.
Friends from Havering Sixth Form College said Jodie had no enemies and suggested she could be the victim of mistaken identity.
Eddie Coyle, her 18-year-old boyfriend, screamed for help as his girlfriend lay bleeding with the knife lodged in her back. She was pronounced dead an hour later.
Detective Chief Superintendent Shabnam Chaudhri, who is leading the police response to the murder in the local community, said on Monday afternoon: 'We still don't have any idea (why Jodie was attacked).'
She said investigators were 'focusing totally' on a witness appeal to try and track down the suspects.
The Met has asked anyone who may have CCTV or dash cam footage between 7pm and 11pm on March 1.
The scene of the crime in Romford where Jodie Chesney was knifed to death. Forensic police officers search the park as flowers and lanterns are left nearby
Tributes: People lay flowers for Jodie Chesney after the 17-year-old Scout Explorer was knifed to death in London
Jodie's mother left flowers and a lantern for her daughter, as friends and relatives hugged one another at the scene of the devastating killing
Ms Chaudhri refused to speculate on whether the attack could have been some form of gang initiation.
'I'm basically famous now': The innocent caption Jodie Chesney posted on the day she visited 10 Downing Street months before she was brutally stabbed in the back in a park in Romford
She said the Met's Violent Crime Taskforce had been deployed in the Havering area as well as additional patrols in the boroughs of Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham and Havering.
'We are working robustly – not just here but across the whole of London,' she said.
'We've increased overtime, we've extended the number of officers on shift we've seen an increase in stop-and-search.
'We've carried out over 2,500 stop-and-search in the last few days, so we are working very robustly.'
When asked if the Met needed more officers, she replied: 'I'd love to have more officers but I have to work with the numbers that I've got.'
A post-mortem carried out on Sunday established that the cause of Jodie's death was trauma and haemorrhage, and police released a photograph of the teenager on the same day.
Jodie was a Girl Scout and school friends said students at Havering College would be wearing purple next Friday in honour of Jodie and her Barking & Dagenham scout troop colours.
She posted a photograph on Instagram with fellow scouts at 10 Downing Street on Remembrance Day last year, with the caption: 'I'm basically famous now … this was such a good opportunity and so much fun.'
In the wake of Jodie's death, her family have backed calls for tougher sentences on knife crime.
Relative Karen Chesney appealed on Facebook for support for a petition calling for a 10-year jail term for knife possession and 25 years for using a knife.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Parliament petition had been signed more than 33,000 times. A total of 100,000 signatures are required before a petition can be considered for debate by MPs.
A post-mortem carried out on Sunday established that the cause of Jodie's death was trauma and haemorrhage.
Jodie's grandmother Debbie Chesney wrote on Facebook yesterday: 'This is a nightmare as you can imagine. I just hope that they catch the boy who did it. We are all still trying to come to terms with it. Please share the post in the hope that the boy who did this or his friends or family have the decency to tell the police who he is'
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Main photo article A man has been arrested in Leicester in connection with the murder of Jodie Chesney, who was stabbed in a park in east London on Friday.
The 17-year-old Explorer Scout was murdered in a random and unprovoked attack as she sat with her boyfriend and three other friends in a park in Harold Hi...
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