Yahoo News Tributes to ‘beautiful, lovely girl’ stabbed to death in Holiday Inn near O2
Tributes were paid today to a “beautiful” young woman stabbed to death in a hotel room as dramatic images emerged of a man hanging from a bedroom window.
Police discovered Khloemae Loy, 23, with a neck wound at the Holiday Inn, near the O2 in Greenwich, shortly after 10am on Sunday.
While the emergency services were at the scene a man, believed by officers to have known her, fell from a fifth-floor window. He was in a critical condition in hospital this morning, and has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Witness Kim Drumgoon, 56, said he saw the man climb out of the window and attempt to scale down the building. She said: “He first threw a suitcase out. Then he climbed on to the ledge.
“The man then went back inside for a bit before coming back out and making it to the floor below, but then fell.
“He landed on a type of awning which is below the hotel that broke his fall and may have saved his life.
“He tried to get up but lay back down again. He looked in a bad way.”
A post-mortem examination found that Ms Loy died from a single stab wound to the neck, police said.
A neighbour of her family home in New Addington today described her as a “beautiful, lovely girl”.
One said: “I am in complete shock, they are a really nice, quiet family. She was a beautiful, lovely girl. We feel terrible for the family.”
Another added: “Our hearts go out to them. We just can’t see how this could have happened and hope there is some justice for the family.”
The hotel’s general manager, Umar Khattak, 38, said the man and woman had checked in on Saturday.
He said the hotel had received calls from different guests about noise coming from a room.
While the hotel has been open during the pandemic to NHS staff at the nearby Nightingale hospital, Saturday was the first day it was open to non-key workers, Mr Khattak said.
He said: “We don’t know exactly what happened. I was at home when I got a call from a staff member.
“There was some noise coming from the room and we had received calls from different guests about it. They said there was shouting.”
A special post-mortem examination held at Greenwich Mortuary yesterday gave the cause of death as a single stab wound to the neck.
A crime scene was in place this morning and officers remained on scene.
Homicide detectives have launched an investigation but officers believe there was no one else involved at this stage.
Anyone with information is asked to call the incident room on 020 8721 4005 or 101.
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