Pensioner charged with murdering 80-year-old wife at their south London home

A pensioner has been charged with murdering his wife at their south London home in a “terribly sad case”.

Police were called at around 9.30am on Friday to a home on Raeburn Avenue in Surbiton after Jenny Sharp, 80, was found unresponsive.

She was pronounced dead two minutes later.

Alan Sharp, 80, was arrested at the scene and was charged with murder on Saturday.A forensic post-mortem examination took place on Saturday and gave Mrs Sharp’s cause of death as “manual compression of the neck”.

Police are not looking for anyone else connected with the murder.Detective Chief Inspector Brian Howie, who is leading the investigation, said: “This is a terribly sad case. The family are being supported by specialist officers and we request their privacy is respected at this incredibly difficult time.”

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