Woman charged after four stabbed near Covent Garden
A 47-year-old woman is charged following a stabbing in central London in which four men were injured.
A 47-year-old woman, Stella Gollovena, has been charged following a stabbing incident near Covent Garden in central London. The police were alerted at approximately 12:30 BST on Wednesday after four men, aged 34, 39, 42, and 56, were discovered with stab wounds at Endell Street. Two of the victims remain hospitalized with injuries that are neither life-threatening nor life-altering, while the remaining two have been released from the hospital.
Gollovena was apprehended at the scene and transported to custody. She is scheduled to appear before Highbury Magistrates' Court in the near future. London's Air Ambulance responded to the incident, landing at Trafalgar Square, yet the four men were transported to the hospital by ambulance through road. This developing news report will be regularly updated, and additional details will be furnished shortly.
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