Friends have paid tribute to a 29-year-old woman and “kind creature” who was stabbed to death at her home in Addiscombe.
Joanna Trojniak was found with multiple knife wounds in the house in Meadvale Road, Addiscombe, that she shared with boyfriend Pawel Sroka last month.
Mr Sroka, 33, was due to appear at the Old Bailey today after being charged with the murder late on Saturday.
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Police and paramedics were called to their terraced house just before 9pm on Wednesday, March 23. Miss Trojniak was pronounced dead at the scene.
A post-mortem examination carried out at Croydon Mortuary the following day gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.
Police outside the house in Meadvale Road following the stabbing last month
Mr Sroka was arrested on the night of the murder after police found him suffering a stab wound to the shoulder in Gordon Crescent, Addiscombe, at about 10.35pm.
He was taken to a south London hospital for treatment and 10 days later police charged him with Ms Trojniak’s murder.
Mr Sroka appeared at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Monday and was remanded in custody until an appearance at the Old Bailey today.
Tributes to Ms Trojniak have flooded in on social media since her death.
Friend Małgorzata Bojarska wrote on Facebook: “I still don’t believe what happened. Yes kind creature. You will always be in my memory.”
Paulina Litwicka added: “I can’t believe it. Sleep in peace. You will always be in the memory of people who knew you.”
On the night Miss Trojniak was found, neighbour Terry Wiltshire, 72, said his wife had seen a pool of blood inside the house shared by the couple.
He said: “There was an ambulance in the middle of the road and police cars and they blocked off both ends of the street.
“There were at least half a dozen police cars.
“About half an hour later more police turned up with two sniffer dogs and searched around the houses.
“They searched all the gardens and the bins.
“The front door was left open and my wife saw a really big pool of blood on the floor.”
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