An 80-year-old man’s appeared in court charged with the murder of his wife in Tolworth.

Alan Sharp has appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of his wife, 80 year old Jenny Sharp, at the address they shared.

An investigation was launched after police were called at around 9.30am to a residential address in Raeburn Avenue after a woman was found unresponsive. She was pronounced dead a few moments later.

Alan Sharp was arrested at the scene and an investigation was undertaken by detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, led by Detective Chief Inspector Brian Howie.

He was charged with murder on Saturday.

A forensic post-mortem examination took place on Saturday and gave the cause of death as ‘manual compression of the neck’.

Police are not looking for anyone else connected with the murder.

DCI Howie said: “This is a terribly sad case. The family are being supported by specialist officers and we request their privacy is respected at this incredibly difficult time.”