‘Kidnap’ victim found stabbed to death in car

The 20-year-old was pronounced dead minutes after she was discovered in a grey Fiat Stilo in Ryder Mews, Hackney, east London, having suffered stab wounds.

She is thought to have been kidnapped from an address in Brownlow Road, also in Hackney, earlier yesterday.

Police and London Ambulance Service were called to Brownlow Road at about 7.10am to reports of a disturbance at a residential address.

The 20-year-old woman was reported to have been abducted by a suspect who fled in a grey Fiat Stilo, Scotland Yard said.

A 22-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were taken from the home to an east London hospital after suffering stab wounds.

The man is said to be in a stable condition and the woman was treated for a minor injury.

Just over an hour later, at about 8.30am, police and ambulance crews received calls to Ryder Mews where a grey Fiat Stilo had been found abandoned with the injured woman inside.

She was pronounced dead at 8.34am, a police spokesman said.

The woman has not yet been formally identified but police believe it is the same woman who was taken from Brownlow Road.

The spokesman added: “A post-mortem examination will take place in due course.”

Police have revealed no further details of the suspect but said inquiries were ongoing to trace him.

A property on Brownlow Road was cordoned off with police tape yesterday afternoon as officers examined the scene.

Neighbours living on the same residential street described hearing a “hysterical” cry coming from the property at about 6am yesterday.

A woman living close to the three-storey home described how she was woken at about 5.30am before hearing “a female sounding extremely distressed”.

Terry Tundervary, 58, a builder, said: “They seemed to be a very friendly family. I used to say hello to the girl.

“If it’s the girl I think it is, she’s got a little baby.

“She was a pretty girl, a very normal girl, the whole family was very friendly although I didn’t know their names. I just knew them to say hello to as neighbours do. I believe the girl’s dad, he may have been her step-dad, came from the US or Canada. I think he was a binman for Hackney Borough Council.”