Woman, 21, appears in court charged with stabbing 58-year-old Aziza Bennis to death
A 21-year-old woman is due to appear in court accused of stabbing a 58-year-old to death in west London after reports of a row.
Metropolitan Police officers were called to a property close to Acton Town station in the borough of Ealing, at 3.37pm on Monday following reports of a disturbance.
Aziza Bennis, 58, was found with stab wounds and died at the scene, before 21-year-old Hanna Bennis was arrested and taken into custody.
A 21-year-old woman is due to appear in court accused of stabbing a 58-year-old to death in London after reports of a row. Pictured: Police car parked outside property where woman died
An officer entering the scene at Clariat Court in Boddington Gardens, Ealing, west London
On Wednesday, she was charged with murder and will appear in custody at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court later in the day.
Met Police officers had attended with the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance.
A post-mortem examination found Ms Bennis’s cause of death to be multiple stab injuries.
Her next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.
Neighbours have described their shock in the wake of the woman’s death.
One, who did not want to be named, said that Ms Bennis, 58, had lived in the flat for 17 years and was ‘a nice person, very friendly’.
Pictured: A Metropolitan police officer at the scene at Clariat Court in Boddington Gardens, Ealing, west London, where a 58-year-old woman was stabbed to death on Monday afternoon
‘I haven’t been to work today, I couldn’t sleep,’ the neighbour said yesterday.
Another neighbour said that ‘it’s really sad’, adding that she heard a ruckus on Monday.
‘I’ve known her since 2005, which is when we all moved here. She was caring.’
The killing is the fifth suspected murder in the capital in just four days.
Kacey Boothe, 25, was shot in Walthamstow, east London, last Saturday night.
Stephen Goodman, 60, was fatally injured during a fight in Dagenham, east London, in the early hours of Sunday. A 23-year-old local man has been charged with murder.
Sonny Booty, 36, was found dead at a house in Lewisham, south east London, on Sunday morning. A 53-year-old man has been charged with murder.
A man was fatally stabbed in Soho, central London, on Monday.
