Teenager tried to pull victim away from fatal confrontation

A teenager told a court how she tried to pull a woman away from a fight before she was stabbed to death at a birthday party. Hope Rowe, 33, 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. When Lowe was interviewed by police she was heard to ask: ‘Murder or attempted murder?’ A 15-year-old witness said that he tried to intervene in the struggle in…