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Daughter of Harrow teacher killed | |
(about 10 hours later) | |
The daughter of a master at one of the UK's leading public schools has been found stabbed to death and the son of another teacher has been arrested. | |
Lucy Braham, 25, the daughter of Harrow School's art director, was found at her family home in Harrow-on-the-Hill, north west London, on Thursday night. | |
She had wounds to her chest and abdomen and was pronounced dead at the scene. | |
Police have arrested student William Jaggs, 22. He was found with stab wounds, thought to be self-inflicted. | |
A knife was found at the scene, in Peterborough Road. | |
It is thought the pair knew each other but were not in a relationship. | |
Residents of the Harrow community are deeply shocked by this tragedy Harrow School statement | Residents of the Harrow community are deeply shocked by this tragedy Harrow School statement |
The arrested man, who is critically injured and too ill to talk to detectives, is under police guard in hospital. He is believed to be the son of a design teacher at the school and a student at Oxford University. | |
Police have cordoned off the property, a Victorian house which is part of a large residential block. | Police have cordoned off the property, a Victorian house which is part of a large residential block. |
It is located just 200m from the entrance to the private all-boys school, which caters for 800 pupils. | It is located just 200m from the entrance to the private all-boys school, which caters for 800 pupils. |
A spokeswoman for Harrow School said: "There was a serious incident in a property owned by the school last night. No pupils from the school were involved. | A spokeswoman for Harrow School said: "There was a serious incident in a property owned by the school last night. No pupils from the school were involved. |
"Residents of the Harrow community are deeply shocked by this tragedy and the school wishes to extend its greatest sympathy to the families of those involved." | "Residents of the Harrow community are deeply shocked by this tragedy and the school wishes to extend its greatest sympathy to the families of those involved." |
'Great sadness' | |
Former Harrow School pupil Deep Dansingani, who now runs an antique shop on Harrow on the Hill, said everyone was devastated. | |
"I have lived in Harrow all my life practically and it's a great sadness for the whole community," he told BBC London. | |
Ray Pan, manager of Bistro Francais, opposite the school, said it was a nice quiet area with a low crime rate. | |
"I'm just stunned that something like this could happen here," he said. |