by: Alain Tolhurst
A man has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after two housing officials were shot in Brixton trying to evict a tenant.
Andrew Stephenson, 50, of Strathleven Road, will appear at appear at Camberwell Magistrates’ Court today to face seven counts in all, including ‘possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life’.
The charges come after a 59-year-old income officer for Metropolitan Housing was shot in the knee after entering a property in Strathleven Road on Wednesday morning.
She was accompanied by a bailiff, also 59, who suffered gunshot wounds to the hip and leg.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Service said yesterday both were taken to a south London hospital for treatment where they remain in stable, non-life-threatening conditions.
This article was written by Alain Tolhurst and originally published on london24
