Woman fatally stabbed and man injured in fall at London hotel

A police sniffer dog with its handler searching bushes outside the Holiday Inn on Bugsby's Way, Greenwich, London, where a woman has died after being stabbed. A man - who officers believe to have been known to the woman - fell from a height while emergency services were at the scene.
A police sniffer dog with its handler searching bushes outside the Holiday Inn on Bugsby's Way Credit: PA

A woman has died after being stabbed at a hotel in south-east London. Police were called to the Holiday Inn on Bugsby’s Way, Greenwich, on Sunday morning.

A woman was found with serious injuries and died at the scene. A man – who officers believe to have been known to the woman – fell from a height while emergency services were at the scene.

He has been taken to hospital under police guard and his condition is being treated as life-threatening. Photographs shared on social media show a broken window five storeys up on the hotel.

A local, who did not want to be named, passed the scene while jogging and said emergency services gathered on a ledge on the second floor.

Police sniffer dog at Holiday Inn Bugsby's Way, Greenwich Credit: PA

Scotland Yard said they do not believe anybody else was involved and have asked anyone with information to come forward.

The hotel’s general manager Umar Khattak, 38, said the man and woman involved in the incident checked in on Saturday.

While the hotel has been open during the pandemic to NHS staff at the nearby Nightingale hospital, Saturday was the first day it was open to non-key workers, Mr Khattak said.

Mr Khattak said police were called and officers moved all guests out of the fifth floor.

The second floor looks out on to the ledge where the man is believed to have fallen, Mr Khattak said.

Police at Holiday Inn Bugsbys Way, Greenwich Credit: PA

Police were still at the scene on Sunday evening, although guests were still allowed into the hotel, which was at 20% occupancy.

An officer with a sniffer dog could be seen searching bushes outside the front of the premises.

Broken glass was scattered across part of the car park underneath a smashed fifth-storey window.