Three men have been arrested in a murder probe after a woman in her twenties was fatally assaulted near a care home.

The horrifying attack happened early on Saturday morning on Chadwell Heath Lane in the Chadwell Heath area of east London.

Metropolitan Police officers and paramedics from the London Ambulance Service were called at around 5.30am to reports of an assault.

The emergency services worked to help her - but despite their best efforts, she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene, near the town of Romford.

The brutal stabbing took place in a leafy residential area just outside the Chadwell House Residential Care Home, which provides residential, dementia and respite care.