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Miriam Burrell,Anthony France and John Dunne

Man charged with murder of wife, 19, stabbed to death in Croydon

A young man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of his teenage wife at a house in south London.

Mehak Sharma, 19, who had recently arrived in the UK from India, was found stabbed to death at a property on Ash Tree Way, Croydon just after 4pm on Sunday. Sahil Sharma, 23, who lived at the same address, appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

Sharma - a millennium baby born on January 1, 2000 - is next due at the Old Bailey on Thursday.

Ms Sharma's next of kin have been informed of her death and formal identification is yet to be completed.

A special post-mortem examination is scheduled to take place on Tuesday. Metropolitan Police detectives are appealing to the public for more information about the fatal stabbing - the eighth homicide in Croydon since January, making it statistically the worst borough in London.

Anyone who saw or heard a disturbance on Sunday afternoon at the property in Ash Tree Way is asked to call police.

Witnesses on Monday described how armed police backed up by a helicopter swooped on the south London street.

It is believed a couple, living there with a child, bought the three-bedroomed terraced home for £445,000 in July and had been renting out rooms.

A neighbour said: “There was a police helicopter and armed officers. It was chaos."

Another neighbour said: “There was pandemonium last night, there were police everywhere. They kicked the door open of the house where it happened."

A 23-year-old suspect was arrested at the property but was taken to hospital for treatment to a minor head injury, a Met spokesman said.

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