Boy, 16, in court accused of murdering woman on Christmas Eve
Kacey Clarke died after being stabbed in a residential property in Bermondsey, London.
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A teenage boy has appeared in court accused of murdering a 22-year-old woman on Christmas Eve.
Kacey Clarke died after being stabbed in a residential property in Bermondsey, south-east London, on Sunday December 24 2023.
The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested a short time later and appeared at the Old Bailey on Tuesday charged with murder.
Metropolitan Police officers were called to the scene at Spenlow House, in Jamaica Road, shortly after 10pm.
A post-mortem examination gave Ms Clarke’s cause of death as a single, sharp-force trauma to the chest.
