Clifton George is because of seem in court docket on Monday
A person has been charged with murdering a lady who was discovered stabbed following a gasoline explosion at her house. Annabel Rook, 46, was discovered fatally injured at a home in Dumont Street, Stoke Newington, north-east London, simply earlier than 5am on Tuesday.
A person was arrested on the scene shortly after officers arrived and brought to hospital with slash accidents. He was later discharged and launched into police custody earlier than being charged.
Clifton George, 44, of Dumont Street, Stoke Newington, was charged on Sunday with the homicide of Ms Rook, the Metropolitan Police mentioned. He was additionally charged with arson with intent to hazard life. He has been remanded in custody to look at Thames Magistrates’ Court docket on Monday.
Appearing Detective Chief Superintendent Brittany Clarke, who’s accountable for policing for the Central East Primary Command Unit, mentioned: “Our ideas proceed to stay with the household and pals of Annabel as they navigate this devastating loss.
“We ask that the general public chorus from hypothesis and respect their privateness right now, and we thank the Hackney group for his or her ongoing help.”
In a press release beforehand issued by way of the Metropolitan Police, Ms Rook’s household mentioned they had been “struggling to return to phrases with this horrible tragedy”.
“We’ve misplaced our lovely daughter, sister, buddy and mom. Annabel was a very great girl,” the tribute learn. “She touched the hearts of so many.
“She gave her life to serving to the susceptible and the deprived whether or not it was in refugee camps in Africa or organising MamaSuze in London, to reinforce the lives of survivors of pressured displacement and gender-based violence. We’d actually respect it if our privateness could possibly be revered.”
Police had been known as at 4.57am on Tuesday to studies of a gasoline explosion with an individual trapped contained in the property. The entrance bay window of the property was utterly blown out that morning, with particles together with crops, wood shutters and glass scattered throughout the road.
Two youngsters, aged seven and 9, had been additionally taken to hospital as a precaution following the incident however will not be thought to have been inside the house when the explosion occurred. Six fireplace engines and 40 firefighters had been additionally known as to the scene.
