Police are urging anyone who saw or heard anything unusual early on Tuesday or in recent days to contact them.
Tuesday 21 June 2022 20:14 UK
The victim was found at an address in Brookside South, Barnet
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman and a five-year-old boy in north London Stabbed to death.
Metropolitan Police said the victims were believed to be mother and son and were known to the arrested man.
Officers were called to a house in south Brookside, Barnet, at 1.37pm today. Paramedics and air ambulances were also deployed.
They found the 37-year-old woman but the boy had been stabbed and was pronounced dead at the scene.
A man was also arrested and the Met's Specialist Crime Command is investigating.
Chief Superintendent Sara Leach described it as an "extremely challenging scenario" for first responders.
"Expert detectives are working to establish what happened and a man is in custody," she said.
