A man and woman have been charged with murdering a one-month old baby.

One-month-old Eva Sanders died on 2 September 2017 after being admitted to hospital the previous day.

Her parents, Clare Sanders, 42 and Tomas Vaitkevicius 44, were summonsed to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on 30 April.

The pair of Streatham Road CR4, Mitcham have been charged by postal requisition on 3 April with murder and causing/allowing the death of a child.

The death was originally treated as unexplained but later deemed to be suspicious.

The charges comes almost two years after baby Eva Sanders’s death.

Police were called to a property in Streatham Road, Mitcham, and found the child unresponsive.

She was then rushed to hospital and placed on life support on September 2017.