A mother has been charged with murdering her five-year-old daughter who was found stabbed to death at a home in Mitcham earlier this summer.

Sutha Sivanantham, 35, is due to appear before Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Friday by video-link over the death of her five-year-old child Sayagi Sivanantham, the Metropolitan Police said.

The pair were both found with knife wounds at their flat in Monarch Parade, Mitcham, on the afternoon of June 30.

Sayagi was taken by paramedics to hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

As the Wimbledon Times reported previously, neighbour, Elsa Gonzales, 47, said she found the pair with injuries inside a flat in Monarch Parade in Mitcham, at around 4 pm on June 30.

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Gonzales, who used to work in an emergency department, said she rushed into the flat to find the mother and child in the bedroom.

"I saw the woman lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

"There was blood everywhere.

"I looked on the bed and saw the girl, she was covered in a blanket."

Gonzales, who has lived at Monarch Parade for 12 years, added: "It's really breaking my heart, Sayagi was a smart kid, she was always smiling.

"She was a cheeky little girl, always playing with the neighbourhood kids.

"To see her so lifeless, it's like my heart is bleeding."

A post-mortem examination held at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital on July 3 found Sayagi died of stab injuries.