Overview

• On the morning of June 17, emergency services responded to a gas explosion at Rook’s Dumont Road house in Stoke Newington and discovered her with fatal stab wounds.
• Two children, aged seven and nine, were taken to hospital as a precaution but are not believed to have been inside the property during the blast.
• A 44-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and remains in custody as police treat the case as domestic-related.
• The Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime Command is leading the investigation and has urged witnesses to come forward with any information.
• Rook co-founded MamaSuze CIC and spent two decades running art and drama workshops for women survivors of forced displacement and gender-based violence.