Man charged with murder after woman's body found in Burton Latimer after McDonald's crash
A man has been charged with murder after a woman's body was found.
Paul Knight, 35, from Donnington Road in Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire will appear in Northampton Magistrates Court on Monday following the discovery on Friday.
The woman has yet to be formally identified.
Police were initially called to McDonald's in Folley Way after receiving reports that a blue Skoda Superb rammed into the restaurant, at around 3.30pm on Friday.
Roads policing officers that attended the scene said that their inquiries led them to an address in Donnington Road, where the body of the woman in her 30s was found.
A post-mortem examination carried out at Leicester Royal Infirmary gave the preliminary cause of death as applied pressure to the neck.
Detectives from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit said they were continuing their investigation into the woman's death, and appealed for anyone with information to get in touch.
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