Architect murder: accused in court

A 31-year-old unemployed man has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of an architect on his lunch break in the East End.

Christopher Olokun, of no fixed abode, was also charged with a street robbery.

He was arrested in Stoke Newington last Wednesday by murder squad detectives probing the killing of Bernard Hegarty, 29, in a suspected mugging.

Olokun appeared at Highbury Corner magistrates court on Saturday and was remanded in custody.

Mr Hegarty, of Tottenham, died without regaining consciousness days after undergoing emergency surgery following the attack, which happened while he was shopping for furniture for his new flat.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "A 31-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Bernard Hegarty on 11 August and also with the street robbery of a man in Colombia Road in Bethnal Green on 31 July."