The Independent

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder and arson after a man died following a suspicious house fire in south London.

The Metropolitan Police were called by London Fire Brigade to a multi-occupancy house in Glenister Park Road, Streatham, shortly after 7pm on Sunday, where they found a 49-year-old man dead inside.

On Monday a 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder and arson with intent to endanger life.

She remains in custody at a south London police station.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found inside a house fire in south London.

Flames was seen by neighbours ripping through the ground floor of the property in Streatham as firefighters burst in to tackle the blaze at 7pm on Sunday.

They found the body of a 49-year-old man dead in the multi-occupancy home in Glenister Park Road.

Scotland Yard believes the fire was started deliberately and is being treated as suspicious.

A group of local residents blocked cars on a road in south London as part of a protest against the area becoming a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN).

Valley Road is part of a group of streets that make up Lambeth Council’s Streatham Wells Low Traffic Neighbourhood trial.

As part of the trial, only buses and taxis are able to enter Valley Road from both ends, with motorists who take the same route facing a fine of £130 from next Monday.

Mr Kaba, 24, died when he was shot through the windscreen of the Audi he was driving in Streatham Hill, south London