Woolwich

He will appear at Woolwich Crown Court for a pre-trial hearing on 23 May after choosing to proceed with a jury trial.

Kaliyah Coa, who had been playing during a school inset day, went missing after going in the water in North Woolwich in east London, on 31 March.

A "large scale" police response has been deployed in North Woolwich after reports of an 11-year-old girl in the River Thames.

Asked on LBC how many times he had accepted free tickets to the O2 arena, which in his Greenwich and Woolwich constituency, Pennycook replied: "Zero".

But he relocated to Woodford with his partner and two younger children after a gunman opened fire at him and his pregnant daughter in the doorway of their Woolwich home in September 2018.