{"id":441241,"date":"2026-02-23T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441241\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:21:07","slug":"man-35-charged-with-murder-after-fatal-stabbing-in-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441241\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 35, charged with murder after fatal stabbing in Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in south-west London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service were called at 00:37 GMT on Sunday to The Broadway, Wimbledon where they found a man with stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim, named as Luke Brereton, 41, from Mitcham, died at the scene. His family are being supported by specialist officers, the Met added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amar Zafar, 35, of Cambridge Grove Road, Kingston has been charged with murder and possession of a knife. He is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in south-west London. The Metropolitan Police and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-441241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}