Vic: Woman charged over stabbing death

AAP General News (Australia)
02-11-2008
Vic: Woman charged over stabbing death

A 41-year-old woman appears in court later today .. charged with murder .. over the
stabbing death of an elderly woman in Melbourne's south-east.

Metropolitan Ambulance Service spokesman RAY ROWE says paramedics were called to a
home in Eva Street .. at Clayton .. about 6.15 (AEDT) last night .. but had to wait until
police declared the site safe to enter.

He says they found the dead woman .. believed to be aged 71 .. inside the house.

Victoria Police spokesman Senior Constable LEIGH WADESON says the victim suffered stab
wounds to her upper body.

Uniformed police arrested a woman at the scene.

The woman .. of nearby Thompson Street in Clayton .. was later charged by homicide detectives.

She did not face an out-of-sessions hearing .. but has been held in custody to appear
in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court later today.

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