Man charged with murder of Finsbury Park pub worker

♦ A 31-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a pub worker who was killed in a park on Christmas Eve.

Kasim Lewis, of Friern Barnet, north London, is due to appear at Wimbledon magistrates’ court today on a single charge of murder.

He was taken into custody at an address in Dalston, east London, on Monday following the death of Iuliana Tudos, 22, in Finsbury Park.

Ms Tudos, who also called herself Julie, was found stabbed to death and with a head wound in Finsbury Park, near her home, on Dec 27.

Police said she was of Russian and Greek origin and was last seen by friends at around 8pm on Christmas Eve before she took a bus home from Camden. She was due to meet them at another friend’s home in Enfield, north London, later that evening before spending Christmas Day there, but never arrived.

Her body was found three days later in a disused building in the park.