A seven-year-old girl who sustained critical injuries in an incident at a house in south London has died in hospital.



Medics treated the child at a property in Wimbledon on Friday and she was rushed to hospital.



A spokesman for the Metropolitan police confirmed the girl had died on Saturday morning. A postmortem examination was due to take place later.

Robert Peters, 55, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates on Saturday morning charged with the attempted murder of the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons. The court was told then that she was unlikely to survive.



A neighbour, who asked not to be named, described arriving home as emergency crews dealt with the situation.

“I had been taking my kids to school, I turned into this road and thought it was strange because the cop cars were driving on the wrong side of the road,” the man said. “They were all double-parked, you couldn’t get down further than my house really.

“There was a woman carrying all the medical gear into the house and you could tell by the look on her face … With coppers you can sometimes be all casual, go up and have a chat about what’s going on, but you could see in their faces that something was very wrong.

“Then the lady came out with a stretcher.”



Another neighbour said Roberts had lived in the area for less than a year. “I knew him just to say hello to in the street, when he was at his car. He hadn’t long moved in.”