Police have launched a murder investigation following the death of a woman in Upper Holloway.

The body of Angela Best, 51, was found at an address in Dartmouth Park Hill, on the border with Camden, last Thursday. Ms Best, from Tottenham, was pronounced dead at the Peabody housing association flat just before 8pm.

A post-mortem examination at Whittington Hospital mortuary on Friday failed to establish a cause of death. Officers are awaiting the results of further tests, Scotland Yard said.

A neighbour of Ms Best, who lived in a council flat off Tottenham High Road, told the Tribune: “It’s terrible. We didn’t know her well, it was just hi and bye.”

A Dartmouth Park Hill resident, who gave his name as Michael, said: “A man, I think it was her son, came here on Thursday when it happened. The police didn’t let him in [the flat]. He was very upset, shouting ‘My mother is dead’.”

There has been no arrest, but police said a man who was taken to an east London hospital last Thursday is being treated as a suspect.

The man, in his 60s and understood to be known to Ms Best, remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition. The cause of his injuries is not believed to be suspicious.

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  MURDER, FLATS, POLICE SERVICE
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  UPPER HOLLOWAY
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  Peabody Housing Association, , Angela Best