{"id":489,"date":"2025-03-11T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2025-03-11T23:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:07:56","slug":"girl-13-charged-with-murder-and-arson-after-mum-of-three-found-dead-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/girl-13-charged-with-murder-and-arson-after-mum-of-three-found-dead-in-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 13, charged with murder and arson after mum-of-three found dead in house"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"354\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22710335 lazyload\" alt=\"Girl, aged 13, charged with murder in Wellingborough A 13-year-old girl has tonight (Tuesday, March 11) been charged with the murder of a woman in Wellingborough. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is also charged with arson with attempt to endanger life. She was arrested on Monday following the discovery of a body in a house in Newcomen Road, shortly after 3am that morning. Formal identification has yet to be confirmed, but she is believed to be 43-year-old mother-of-three Marta Bednarczyk. A forensic post-mortem investigation, which took place today at Leicester Royal Infirmary, gave the preliminary cause of death as being a result of sharp force injury. Police and firefighters had attended the address after reports came in of a fire at the property. Inside, police officers found Marta?s body and paramedics sadly declared her dead at the scene at 3.29am. A scene guard remains in place tonight and police are asking people to avoid the immediate area. Detective Chief Insp Johnny Campbell, the senior investigating officer from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, said: ?This evening we have formally charged a 13-year-old Wellingborough girl with murder, and arson, and she will appear before Northampton Magistrates Court at 10am tomorrow. ?I want to take a moment to thank the many police officers and staff who are working and continue to work tirelessly on this investigation since the very tragic events of early yesterday morning. And, in particular, all our thoughts are with Marta?s family who have been fully co-operative throughout what has been a devastating couple of days for them. ?Given the developments this evening, we will be making no further comment at this time.?\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_243495196-9a33.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The girl cannot be named for legal reasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder after a woman was found dead in Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p>Called to a burning house on Newcomen Road, Wellingborough, around 3am on Monday, police found a woman dead inside.<\/p>\n<p>No formal identification has taken place, but she is believed to be Marta Bednarczyk, a 43-year-old mother of three.<\/p>\n<p>She was declared dead at the scene at 3.29am. Her preliminary cause of death is \u2018a sharp force injury\u2019, police said. A post-mortem examination is yet to take place.<\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder and arson with attempt to endanger life.<\/p>\n<p>Her age means she cannot be legally named. She is due to appear in court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Chief Insp Johnny Campbell, the senior investigating officer from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, said: \u2018This evening we have formally charged a 13-year-old Wellingborough girl with murder, and arson, and she will appear before Northampton Magistrates Court at 10am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I want to take a moment to thank the many police officers and staff who are working and continue to work tirelessly on this investigation since the very tragic events of early yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And, in particular, all our thoughts are with Marta\u2019s family who have been fully co-operative throughout what has been a devastating couple of days for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Given the developments this evening, we will be making no further comment at this time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girl cannot be named for legal reasons A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder after a woman was found dead in Northamptonshire. Called to a burning house on Newcomen Road, Wellingborough, around 3am on Monday, police found a woman dead inside. No formal identification has taken place, but she is believed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}