Woman, 75, stabbed to death in south London

A 75-year-old woman has died after being stabbed during a suspected domestic incident in south London.

The woman was attacked at a residential address on Ethnard Road in Peckham on Friday afternoon and was pronounced dead shortly after ambulance crews arrived. Medics said she had multiple stab wounds.

A 55-year-old man, who is believed to have known the victim, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. He was taken to an east London hospital to be treated for a stab wound, then transferred to a police station in the south of the capital. He remains there in custody.

The number of homicides in the capital so far in 2018 has already surpassed that for the whole of 2017, and now stands at 120. In the week from 31 October, five people died from stab wounds, including three teenagers.

Home Office figures suggest there were 118 murders in London in 2017, excluding the 13 victims of the terrorists at Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and Finsbury Park.