Tia Sharp murder accused Stuart Hazell due in court

The partner of Tia Sharp's grandmother is due in court later accused of murdering the 12-year-old.

Stuart Hazell was arrested on Friday, soon after a body was removed from the house in south London he shares with 46-year-old Christine Sharp.

Tia was reported missing on 3 August and was last seen at the house in New Addington, Croydon.

Mr Hazell, 37, will appear before Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court, south London.

Although police are awaiting formal identification of the body found in the house, the victim is named in the murder charge as Tia.

On Sunday Tia's mother Natalie Sharp and stepfather David Niles laid a tribute at a makeshift shrine near the house in New Addington.

Christine Sharp has been bailed to return to a south London police station following her arrest on suspicion of the murder of her granddaughter.

A 39-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has also been bailed.