A person has been charged with murdering a “light” instructor in south London.
Gemma Devonish, 42, was discovered with stab wounds at a house in Nutfield Shut in Carshalton on Thursday.
Officers and London Ambulance Service rushed to the scene the place Ms Devonish was pronounced useless.
James Madden, 38, who was identified to Gemma, was arrested within the early hours of Friday.
On Saturday he was charged together with her homicide and detectives should not searching for anybody else in reference to the homicide.
He’ll seem in custody at Croydon Magistrates’ Courtroom on Monday.
‘The kindest and most light of individuals’
Miss Devonish had labored as head of yr at Rosebery College in Epsom, which has been left “devastated by the sudden and sudden loss of life”.
A brief college assertion stated: “Our ideas are with Gemma’s mom and sister, prolonged household and mates, at this deeply distressing time.”
Rosebery’s Head of College David Lach advised SurreyLive: “Miss Devonish was the kindest and most light of individuals, who was dedicated to her work and beloved her college students at Rosebery so very a lot.
“She was a beautiful instructor who impressed a love of her topic amongst all her college students and went above and past to supply her time, experience and care to the scholars in her courses and in her yr group.
“We all know that this information may have come as a horrible shock to college students and oldsters/carers throughout our group, because it has to all workers, who’re discovering it extremely troublesome to grasp that we’ve misplaced such a cherished good friend and colleague, so out of the blue.
“Her loss to our faculty is incalculable, however she leaves essentially the most unbelievable legacy within the a whole bunch of scholars which have been touched by her vitality, ardour and empathy.
“The hearts of the Rosebery group can be damaged by this terrible information, however the power of our faculty has all the time been the way in which we’ve supported one another in occasions of adversity.”
Detective Chief Inspector Alex Gammampila stated: “Our ideas at the moment are with Gemma’s household and mates who’re attempting to return to phrases with this actually tragic occasion. We’re providing all of them the assist that we will.
“We all know that the broader group may also be impacted and I might urge anybody with considerations to please communicate with native officers.
“Whereas we’ve made an arrest detectives proceed to hold out quite a lot of enquiries as we construct an image of the occasions that led to this horrific homicide.
“I might ask anybody who was within the space of Nutfield Shut who could have seen or heard something suspicious, significantly on Wednesday 18 or morning of Thursday 19 December, to make contact.”
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