A murder hunt has been launched after a woman in her twenties was found dead near a care home.
The horrifying attack happened early on Saturday morning on Chadwell Heath Lane in the Romford area of east London.
Metropolitan Police officers were called at 5.34am to reports of an assault and helped the woman along with paramedics from the London Ambulance Service.
But she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
The brutal stabbing took place in a residential area just down the road from Chadwell House Residential Care Home, which provides residential, dementia and respite care.
