<p>An Indian-origin man has been charged with murder after he walked into a police station and admitted to assaulting and killing his 77-year-old wife in east London, police said.</p>.<p>Tarsame Singh, 79, appeared before the Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Thursday, and has been charged with the murder of 77 year-old Maya Devi, the Metropolitan Police said.</p>.<p>After Singh handed himself into a police station near the couple's home in Hornchurch, East London, on Tuesday evening, officers and paramedics rushed to the scene and found Devi with severe head injuries.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/mp-six-of-family-shot-dead-on-return-to-village-in-chambal-region-after-10-years-1216119.html" target="_blank">MP: Six of family shot dead on return to village in Chambal region after 10 years</a></strong></p>.<p>"She was pronounced dead a short while later at the scene," the police statement said, adding that her "next of kin are aware and continue to be supported by specially trained officers".</p>.<p>According to Daily Mail, Singh ran the post office along with his wife in nearby Rainham for many years before recently retiring.</p>.<p>Both Singh and Devi, parents of a son and two daughters, are originally from India but had been living in Britain for more than 50-years, the report said.</p>.<p>Devi, who was supposed to go on a vacation to Lanzarote next week, was a regular at the Havering Asian Social and Welfare Association (HASWA) community centre, where she practised Yoga and met friends for lunch.</p>.<p>"I can't believe this has happened and that she has gone. I saw her just a few hours before her death, it doesn't seem real that I won't see her again," Devi's friend Nirmala Leal told Daily Mail.</p>.<p>Leal said she had spoken to Devi a day before the muder, and she seemed to be in a good mood.</p>.<p>The three-floor end terrace home of the couple has been cordoned off by police.</p>
<p>An Indian-origin man has been charged with murder after he walked into a police station and admitted to assaulting and killing his 77-year-old wife in east London, police said.</p>.<p>Tarsame Singh, 79, appeared before the Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Thursday, and has been charged with the murder of 77 year-old Maya Devi, the Metropolitan Police said.</p>.<p>After Singh handed himself into a police station near the couple's home in Hornchurch, East London, on Tuesday evening, officers and paramedics rushed to the scene and found Devi with severe head injuries.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/mp-six-of-family-shot-dead-on-return-to-village-in-chambal-region-after-10-years-1216119.html" target="_blank">MP: Six of family shot dead on return to village in Chambal region after 10 years</a></strong></p>.<p>"She was pronounced dead a short while later at the scene," the police statement said, adding that her "next of kin are aware and continue to be supported by specially trained officers".</p>.<p>According to Daily Mail, Singh ran the post office along with his wife in nearby Rainham for many years before recently retiring.</p>.<p>Both Singh and Devi, parents of a son and two daughters, are originally from India but had been living in Britain for more than 50-years, the report said.</p>.<p>Devi, who was supposed to go on a vacation to Lanzarote next week, was a regular at the Havering Asian Social and Welfare Association (HASWA) community centre, where she practised Yoga and met friends for lunch.</p>.<p>"I can't believe this has happened and that she has gone. I saw her just a few hours before her death, it doesn't seem real that I won't see her again," Devi's friend Nirmala Leal told Daily Mail.</p>.<p>Leal said she had spoken to Devi a day before the muder, and she seemed to be in a good mood.</p>.<p>The three-floor end terrace home of the couple has been cordoned off by police.</p>