A woman in her 80s has been stabbed to death in southeast London.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to reports of a man with a knife at Red Lion Place, Plumstead, at 8.50am.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews found the woman with serious injuries and she was taken to hospital where she died.<\/p>\n
Another man was also threatened with a knife but was not hurt, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n
A man in his 60s attended a police station at 9.10am and was arrested on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: He was taken to hospital by officers, where he is receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n It is believed the suspect and the woman who died were known to each other. Officers are not looking for any further suspects.<\/p>\n Detective Inspector Dean Grice, who is leading the Met’s investigation, said it was “a deeply tragic incident”, adding “our thoughts remain firmly with the victim’s family during this difficult time”.<\/p>\n Residents will see an increased police presence in the local area, the Met said.<\/p>\n Detective Superintendent James Derham, who leads policing in the local area, said: “At this stage, we believe that this was an isolated incident and I want to reassure the community that there is no wider risk to the public.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 80s has been stabbed to death in southeast London. Officers were called to reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507463,"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-507462","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\/507462","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=507462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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