A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder after a woman’s body was found at a house in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
The child is also charged with arson with an attempt to endanger life.
Formal identification has yet to be confirmed, but the woman who died is believed to be 43-year-old mother-of-three Marta Bednarczyk, Northamptonshire Police said.
A forensic post-mortem investigation gave the preliminary cause of death as being a result of sharp force injury.
Police and firefighters had attended the address after reports came in of a fire at the property. Inside, police officers found Marta’s body and paramedics sadly declared her dead at the scene.
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