A teenager has been charged with the murder of a mother stabbed to death as she walked to work.

The 17-year-old boy is accused of a "frenzied" attack on Carmelita Tulloch, 51, in Vauxhall, south London, on Tuesday morning.

The grandmother was knifed repeatedly as she fell screaming to the ground in Wickham Road - only five minutes' walk from her home in Scotson House on the Ethelred Estate.

A man was seen running away at around 9.05am, his clothes covered in blood.

Mrs Tulloch, a receptionist who has two grown daughters and a granddaughter, bled to death from a wound to her neck.

"She was such a loving person," her husband, Prince, 42, said earlier. "I'm torn apart, I will never get over this."

The youth is due to appear at Lambeth Youth Court, sitting at Balham Juvenile Court, SW17, today.