A man has been charged with preventing a lawful burial after a body was found in a wheelie bin in north-east London.
Gerardo Rossi, 52, of Islington, was arrested and charged on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.
The Italian national appeared at Highbury Magistrates' on Friday and was remanded into custody.
He will next appear in court on June 14.
It comes after the body of Erik San-Fillipo was found in the garden of a derelict house in Holloway, in Islington, on Saturday.
The body, said to have been dressed in designer clothes, carried no obvious signs of injury and a post-mortem examination failed to establish a cause of death.
The family of Mr San-Fillipo, 23, arrived in London yesterday from their home in Marti, near Pisa in Tuscany, to formally identify the body.
His mother, Carmen De Caro, told the Standard: “He was our prince. I am destroyed.”
After Rossi was charged, a police spokesman said: "At this stage the death is being treated as unexplained and enquiries are being led by the Met’s Central North Command."
Police are asking anyone with information to come forward by calling CID on 07827872423 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
