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Woman fatally stabbed in neck named by police

Hsin-Yi Lo
BBC News, South East
Emily Coady-Stemp/BBC An image of Imtech House in Woodthorpe Road, Ashford. It is a multi-storey building with many windows. There is a grey sky in the background. Emily Coady-Stemp/BBC
A woman who was fatally stabbed at a property in Ashford has been named as Laleh Zarejouneghani

A woman who was fatally stabbed in the neck at a property in Surrey has been named by police.

Laleh Zarejouneghani and a two-year-old child were found with serious injuries at Imtech House in Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, on 16 January.

Paramedics pronounced the 27-year-old dead at the scene and the child was taken to hospital for treatment.

Surrey Police has since confirmed Ms Zarejouneghani's cause of death was a stab wound to the neck.

Milad Ghafari, 34, of Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, has appeared at Guildford Magistrates' Court charged with with child cruelty.

He has been remanded in custody and will next appear at Guildford Crown Court later this week, police said.

An investigation, led by the Surrey and Sussex Police Major Crime Team, remains ongoing to establish the circumstances which led to the woman's death, the force added.

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