A man has been hospitalised after he stabbed himself at shopping centre.

Police were called at around 12.20pm today after reports of an 18-year-old man “self-harming” at St Ann’s Shopping Centre, in Harrow.

Police and the London Ambulance Service arrived to find the man suffering with stab wounds.

He was detained under the Mental Health Act and taken to hospital with “potentially life-threatening injuries”.

There have been no arrests at this time and police enquiries continue.