Party killer ‘pulled knife from her handbag to kill guest’

A killer took a knife from her handbag to stab another woman to death outside a birthday party, a court heard. Hope Rowe, 32, is accused of murdering 31-year-old Charlotte Lawlor in the foyer of a block of flats in Duckett Street, Stepney Green on 15 September. Police were called to reports of a stabbing at 1.17am. London Ambulance Service attended but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Prosecutor Charlotte Newell, KC, said: ‘There had been a verbal…