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| Southfields burned garden body: Two charged with murder | Southfields burned garden body: Two charged with murder |
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| A man and a woman have been charged with murder after a badly burned body was found in a back garden. | A man and a woman have been charged with murder after a badly burned body was found in a back garden. |
| Ouissem Medouni, 40, and Sabrina Kouider, 34, were arrested in Southfields, on Thursday evening. | |
| The pair, of Wimbledon Park Road, appeared at Wimbledon magistrates. They are due at the Old Bailey next Tuesday. | |
| Reports suggest the victim worked as a nanny at the address, but the Met said the person's remains were too charred to work out their gender and age. | |
| Det Insp Richard Leonard said detectives were "doing everything we can to identify the deceased". | Det Insp Richard Leonard said detectives were "doing everything we can to identify the deceased". |
| A post-mortem examination will be carried out in due course. | |
| Neighbours reported a burning smell and seeing "light smoke" coming from the garden of a property. | Neighbours reported a burning smell and seeing "light smoke" coming from the garden of a property. |
| One, Mario Riccio, said he was "shocked" to hear of the news. | |
| "It's a good area", he said. | |
| "We are busy people around here - it's not often something like this happens." | |
| He told the BBC he knew mostly of the nanny who lived at the address. | |
| "The nanny would be in and out, in and out - to the parks and to the shops with the children so I used to see the nanny very very often", he said. | |
| One local man, who asked not to be named, said his daughter came home with a letter from school as a result of the police activity. | One local man, who asked not to be named, said his daughter came home with a letter from school as a result of the police activity. |
| A Sheringdale Primary School spokesman said: "This is an incredibly distressing incident that has come as a great shock to the whole school community." | A Sheringdale Primary School spokesman said: "This is an incredibly distressing incident that has come as a great shock to the whole school community." |