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09/03/2010
Police Seek Murdered Girl's Phone
A man has been charged following a death of a teenage girl in Islington.
Zakk Sackett, 19, is accused of murdering of Jessie Wright, aged 16, last week.
He appeared before Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in connection with the death yesterday morning.
Police were called at 3.30pm on Thursday 4 March where a body was found in a yard adjacent to a block of flats in Outram Place, N1.
London Ambulance Service attended and Jessie Wright, 16, was confirmed dead at the scene.
A post-mortem gave cause of death as compression of the neck.
An incident room has opened at Barking under DCI John Macdonald, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
"Investigations continue and police are appealing for members of the public to assist them in finding Jessie's phone, which has not been found despite an extensive search of the scene. The phone is a Black Samsung Tocco Lite," added a police spokesman.
(PR/GK)
Zakk Sackett, 19, is accused of murdering of Jessie Wright, aged 16, last week.
He appeared before Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in connection with the death yesterday morning.
Police were called at 3.30pm on Thursday 4 March where a body was found in a yard adjacent to a block of flats in Outram Place, N1.
London Ambulance Service attended and Jessie Wright, 16, was confirmed dead at the scene.
A post-mortem gave cause of death as compression of the neck.
An incident room has opened at Barking under DCI John Macdonald, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
"Investigations continue and police are appealing for members of the public to assist them in finding Jessie's phone, which has not been found despite an extensive search of the scene. The phone is a Black Samsung Tocco Lite," added a police spokesman.
(PR/GK)
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