A STAPLEFORD man has been charged with murder and attempted murder following the discovery of a woman's body at a house in Loughborough.
Police were called to the house in Rockingham Close, where they broke down a door to get in and found the 67-year-old woman's body.
Police say she had been stabbed.
Another woman, who is 33, was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
A spokeswoman for the police said: "Police were called to an address in Rockingham Close, in Shepshed, Loughborough, at 2.32am following reports that a woman was being held against her will."
They arrived at the house, in the quiet residential road, and residents were woken as they forced entry.
The road was closed off to allow forensic examinations to take place.
One woman, who asked not to be named, said: "We woke up at about 3am and everything was cordoned off.
"There was this loud banging that woke everyone up - it must have been the police trying to knock down the door. Everyone heard it.
"I don't really know the people who live there."
Andrew Lau, 37, who lives opposite the house, said: "It was about 3am and there was a lot of blue lights and noise."
"I went back to sleep and when I woke up the whole road had been cordoned off and there were forensic guys everywhere."
Neighbour Jimmy Cowley, 64, said: "I was woke up by loud banging, which I thought at first was someone kicking my wheelie bin.
"I looked out and saw all the flashing blue lights. While they were trying to get in there was this loud banging.
"A family live there and have done for a few years."
Mr Cowley added: "It is unbelievable that something like this has happened on our street.
"I've been here 24 years, it's just a normal, quiet cul-de-sac. It's absolutely awful."
A fourth resident, who asked not to be identified, said officers conducted door-to-door inquiries.
"They came round asking us questions," he said. "But they wouldn't say what had happened.
"It was a bit scary to be honest."
A spokeswoman for Leicestershire Police said: "A 36 year old man, from Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, has been charged with murder and attempted murder and will appear before Leicester Magistrates Court on Monday, October 13."
