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Charity Co-Founder Stabbed to Death After Gas Explosion in Stoke Newington Home

The Metropolitan Police are treating the case as a domestic incident with a suspect held in custody.

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Overview

  • Annabel Rook, 46, co-founded MamaSuze CIC to support refugee and migrant women and previously spent 16 years working with young refugees at PAN Intercultural Arts.
  • At around 5am on June 17, a suspected gas explosion tore through the ground floor of her Dumont Road terraced house, blowing out windows and scattering debris across the street.
  • Emergency crews found Rook inside with fatal stab wounds and paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.
  • A 44-year-old man was arrested at the address on suspicion of murder and remains hospitalized with slash wounds assessed as non-life-threatening.
  • Investigators from the Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade continue to probe the cause of the explosion, while two children aged seven and nine were hospitalized as a precaution.