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Man charged with Wandsworth murder

Metropolitan Police Theo Porteous pictured sitting on a stone wall with the ocean behind him.Metropolitan Police
Theo Porteous has been named as the victim of a fatal stabbing

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 32-year-old man in south-west London.

Earl Morin-Britton, 36, from Sutton was arrested and charged on Saturday with the murder of Theo Porteous.

He has been remanded in custody to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Officers were called to Thessaly Road in Nine Elms at about 12:30 BST on Thursday where they found a man with a number of knife wounds.

Paramedics and London's Air Ambulance were deployed to the area but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mr Porteous's next of kin have been informed.