A teenager has been charged with the murder of a “talented” Harlow Town footballer.

Francois Kablan was stabbed to death in Southwark, south-east London, on Wednesday at around 5.30pm.

He was found on Great Dover Street after reports of a fight involving several boys.

The 19-year-old played for Harlow Town reserves, and scored a hat-trick in his last game for the club.

In a statement, Reserves Manager Adam Connolly said: Francois was a wonderful person and player. A lot of our players went to the same college as Francois, so it’s been hard on everyone within the squad to hear of this tragic news.

“On his last game for Harlow, he scored a superb hat-trick to win us the game and walk away with the match ball. He was certainly a talented footballer and one who could have gone on to feature for the first team.

“On behalf of all of the squad, and everyone at the club, our thoughts are with his family and friends.”

A 17-year-old boy has been was charged with murder on Saturday night, while a 15-year-old was charged with being in possession of an offensive weapon.

Both will appear at Bromley Youth Court on Monday.

A 16-year-old boy who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of grievous bodily harm has been released on bail, as have a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman who were arrested on suspicion of murder.

There’s plenty of blame to go around in the case of the University of Idaho football player accused of assaulting or threatening at least three women in 2012-2013. But I worry that the biggest problem this case spotlights is not only going unaddressed, it’s being ignored: An athlete suspected of a crime and judged to be a danger to female athletes in Moscow ended up on a campus in New York with little concern for the students there.

We’ve decided as a society that such out-of-sight, out-of-mind policies are no longer acceptable for abusive priests or offending school teachers. So how is it still OK for universities and athletes?

That’s not to say there aren’t other maddening takeaways from the case of Jahrie Level. It’s hard not to agree with the U of I volleyball player who blogged March 24: “I can no longer say I have complete trust in our system, because I thought our staff would be different.”

Let’s start at the top.

University President Chuck Staben arrived on campus in 2014, well after the screw-up in 2013. He had a chance to remain untainted by this mess. At the March 28 meeting of the student senate, Staben could have welcomed the scrutiny as a chance to listen, to learn, to promise no repeats. Instead, he lectured students, like an HR director, on the complications of firing someone. He said Athletic Director Rob Spear has become a “role model” for working to prevent sexual assault cases. After offering his tone-deaf remarks, he departed for a previous commitment. Instead of signaling that he would be open-minded in search of the truth, he sided with the defensive establishment. His too-late decision to place Spear on administrative leave Tuesday feels more like rear-end covering than the sincere search for the truth the U of I needs.

Athletic Director Spear admits he mishandled the original report from diver Mairin Jameson. Policy called for such cases to be referred to the dean of students. This is not a mere technicality: Had Spear done the one thing that the AD was supposed to do, Jameson immediately would have gotten proper advice and referrals to campus resources. Jameson’s unnecessary, years-long anguish would have been prevented. And, more importantly, the school and other students would have been safer.

Spear and the university assure us that, although the process was botched, the final result was right: Level was dismissed from the team and ended up leaving campus. “The outcome wouldn’t have changed,” Spear told Statesman sports editor Chadd Cripe.

That misses an important point: Jameson, angry at being treated dismissively, and her equally angry mother, had to push university officials to do their jobs. Jameson had to discover on her own that the university had a protocol and resources to serve her, after being told otherwise. Moreover, following proper steps would have triggered the internal process to promptly address the threat to campus. And, on a human level, the outcome for Jameson would have been much different: She wouldn’t have had to wait five years for an apology, or for an explanation of what happened (including the positive steps the university had taken that would have reduced the anxiety she experienced in 2013).

Firing Spear might serve as brief pressure relief, and satisfy the critics angry at him for myriad reasons beyond this case. But that would offer up a scapegoat instead of focusing on systemic problems that deserve further examination and remedy.

Moscow police: Thanks to courageous young women, we know now that Level was investigated for three separate cases of reported threats or assault, and charged in one of those for giving alcohol to an underage student. Why did it take informal, back-channel communications between Jameson and runner Maggie Miller and a newspaper to connect those dots five years after the fact? How did the police not alert the athletic director that a football player had been charged with providing an underage woman with alcohol and investigated following a report of a possible assault? Wouldn’t that have changed the way the university handled later reports about Level?

Idaho law: This case revealed that the crime of unwanted sexual touching of an adult is not a sexual offense under Idaho law. That means that police can charge someone accused of unwanted sexual touching only under the misdemeanor battery statute. Idaho and Mississippi are the two states that still treat touching that way. Why does it matter? Because it is a simple misdemeanor, so police had no way to go after Level once he left the state. That meant no criminal history, no public record. It was like it never happened.

Stony Brook University is the New York school where Level transferred after leaving Moscow. The school’s first response to Statesman inquiries about Level was to sneer about old news, rather than address whether it had welcomed an abuse suspect to its football team. Did the schools ever communicate? Did Stony Brook have the information it needed to make a sound decision? Nobody’s talking, so we don’t know. But it seems unlikely: Stony Brook’s press release at the time praised Level for having “a great head on his shoulders.”

The one thing we do know from Spear is that the U of I told Stony Brook on the routine transfer checklist that Level had not been suspended from school and was a “student in good standing.” A starting receiver relocates across the country to a new team, yet neither Spear nor football coach Paul Petrino remember ever getting questions from Stony Brook.

Either the U of I failed to alert Stony Brook, Stony Brook failed to inquire, or Stony Brook didn’t let what it knew deter it from making room on its roster for an assault suspect. One of these institutions did not take its public trust seriously.

Athlete catch and release: How often does a student-athlete get into trouble and then quietly transfer elsewhere, with little or no public accounting? U of I officials say they can alert another school about a potential problem student on a “case-specific” basis. If this case doesn’t qualify, then what does?

Policy-makers and taxpayers need to be able to trust that public institutions operated with public dollars prize public safety and accountability. Yet we continue to see a system that allows male athletes accused of harassment or crimes slip quietly away, with no criminal record that would serve to alert others elsewhere to beware.

These sad cases raise questions far beyond whether Spear should be suspended or fired. In the end, we need a system that protects victims and ensures accountability, a system that doesn’t shunt problem athletes to other campuses.

After decades of disgrace, society finally has deemed it unacceptable to hush up the case of an offending teacher or an abusive priest, to let them move quietly away to become another community’s problem. The fact it is still OK for universities and athletes is shameful. The experiences of gutsy athletes like Jameson and Miller need to be the catalyst to end this practice.

A man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving – after a former Farnborough Town player died in a crash in London.

17 year old Harry Louis Rice was among a group of three teenagers killed when they were hit by a car that reportedly mounted the pavement close to a nearby petrol station.

Despite the efforts of paramedics, all three boys were pronounced dead at the scene.

It is understood they had been on their way to a birthday party at a nearby football club with friends when they were killed.

The other two victims were 16-year-old George Toby Wilkinson and 16-year-old Josh Mcgunniess.

Jaynesh Chudasama, 28, of Hayes, is due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court today.

He was arrested at the scene of the crash.

A 34-year-old man was arrested earlier on Sunday after he voluntarily attended a police station in north London.

Earlier yesterday Detective Sergeant Michael Rapp of the Met’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit said: “This is a fast moving investigation and CCTV enquiries and forensic analysis of the car involved are under way.

“At least two males are believed to have left the black Audi A5 following the collision. Enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the collision and the number of occupants in the vehicle involved.”

Hillingdon Borough Commander, Colin Wingrove said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with family and many friends of three young men who have died in such tragic circumstances.

“Tributes continue to be laid at the scene and officers will be in and around the area providing a presence and also make to themselves available to anyone who does have information and wants to speak with police.

“Detectives from the Roads and Transport Policing Command continue to lead the investigation and a number of enquiries are on going.

“There is understandably a lot of shock and grief in the local community. These three young men had their whole lives ahead of them.

“I would like to reiterate the appeal from the families that their privacy is respected at this difficult time so they can grieve in peace.”

Anyone with information should call the Met’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 0208 991 9555 or via Twitter @MetCC.

Alternatively, contact the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, or visit crimestoppers-uk.org.