Woman and daughter in 'machete murder'

A mother and daughter are accused of stabbing to death a woman when a long-running dispute between neighbours exploded into violence.

The pair used a machetestyle knife and baseball bat in the attack on three women at a flat on the Glebe estate in Camberwell, the Old Bailey was told.

Sandra Nevers, 45, and her daughter Aisha Small, 26, attacked and seriously injured neighbour Andrea Spencer and her daughter Caroliesa Clarke, 23, it is alleged.

The bloodshed marked the climax of a five-year feud between the two families.

The injured women had begged Southwark council to re-house them hours before the attack.

But the woman who died, 44-year-old Sharmaine Evans, was an innocent visitor who had nothing to do with the dispute. She died after being stabbed in the side in June last year.

Nevers, of Camberwell, and Small, of Rotherhithe, plead not guilty to assaulting Ms Spencer in the first incident and deny charges of murder and two counts of wounding with intent in the second incident.

The trial continues.