Overview

• Police and paramedics were called to Wellmeadow Road at about 01:00 on Sunday, 24 August, where an 87-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
• A post-mortem examination on Monday, 25 August, recorded compression of the neck as the cause of death.
• Vasile Iosebica, 47, of Wellmeadow Road, was arrested at the scene, charged on Tuesday, 26 August, and was due to appear at Bromley Magistrates’ Court the same day.
• Investigators say the victim and the charged man were known to each other, and the Metropolitan Police are not appealing for witnesses at this stage.
• The victim has not been officially named by police; some outlets have published a name and a variant spelling of the suspect’s surname that are not reflected in Met statements.