Two teenagers charged over death of woman, 88, in east London fire

Eighteen-year-old and 15-year-old to appear at Thames magistrates court after incident in October

Two teenagers have been charged with manslaughter and arson after an 88-year-old woman was killed in a fire in east London.

Metropolitan police officers were called to reports of a fire at a residential address in Queens Park Road, Romford, in October where Josephine Smith was pronounced dead at the scene.