First photo of teenage girl stabbed to death in Croydon
A 19-year-old girl who was stabbed to death has been pictured for the first time.
Mehak Sharma, who had recently arrived in the UK from India, was found dead at a property on Ash Tree Way, Croydon just after 4pm on October 29.
Her husband Sahil Sharma, 23, has been charged with murder.
Sharma 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 was scheduled to take place on Tuesday.
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."
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 the police.