{"id":347593,"date":"2025-08-15T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347593\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:13:14","slug":"man-charged-after-woman-found-dead-in-east-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347593\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after woman found dead in east London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder after a 73-year-old woman was found dead inside a property in east London.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police said Mizanur Rahman, 45, will appear at Thames Magistrates Court on Saturday, 16 August.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to an address in Russia Lane in Bethnal Green at 21:00 BST on Thursday and made an arrest on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, now identified as Sufia Khatun, was found with a serious head injury and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The force added that the woman&#8217;s next-of-kin had been informed and were being supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem exam will take place in due course, said the Met.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjdwm5?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sounds<\/a> and follow BBC London on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCLondon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCLondonNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbclondon\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>. Send your story ideas to <a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/mailto:hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\" data-ylk=\"slk:hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related links<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755295994_990_\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after a 73-year-old woman was found dead inside a property in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,135,123124,123125,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-347593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-metropolitan-police","13":"tag-mizanur-rahman","14":"tag-thames-magistrates-court","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115035085883287579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}