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A man was due to appear in court today charged with knifing a school teaching assistant to death as she walked her dog.
Passers-by found the body of Sally Garwood, 34, near her home in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on Saturday afternoon. Her dog was said to be sitting beside her in Quarrendon Playing Fields. A post-mortem examination confirmed she had died of stab wounds.
Robert Cusworth, 24, has been charged with murder and was due to appear before Aylesbury magistrates. Thames Valley police said Cusworth and Mrs Garwood did not know each other. Mrs Garwood, a teaching assistant at Lord Williams's School in Thame, Oxfordshire, and her husband, Simon Garwood, 34, a youth worker at Oaks Community Church in Aylesbury, were devout Christians and had no children. Family friend Paul Sheen, 56, said of Mrs Garwood: "You couldn't have met a nicer person."
Police said that no one else was being sought in connection with the killing.
