A man has been charged with the murder of his neighbour who was stabbed to death as she made her way to work in the morning rush hour, police have said.
Police were called just before 8am on Thursday after witnesses heard screams and 45-year-old mother-of-one Alison Morrison was found with stab wounds. She taken from the site, around a half a mile from her Harrow home, to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, where she died.
Trevor Gibbon, 48, will appear before magistrates in Hendon on Saturday, the Metropolitan police said. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as multiple stab wounds.
David Perry, leader of Harrow Council, said: “Alison Morrison was passionately committed to creating a safer Harrow through her work with the Harrow Safer Neighbourhood Board and as a community champion, and it is terrible news that she has lost her life in this violent way in a borough she cared so much about.
“Alison’s colleagues on the Safer Neighbourhood Board are absolutely shattered by this news, as are the staff of Harrow Council. Alison was a key member of the board and a tireless advocate of its work.
“We will do whatever we can to help the police. In the meantime, our thoughts are with Alison’s family.”
