A 70-year-old woman from Brighton has been charged with murdering her husband at their flat in Kemp Town, Sussex Police said.
The force said that they had arrested Joanna Rowland-Stuart, a former transgender rep and a former director of the LGBT Community Safety Forum. Joanna Rowland-Stuart was previously known as John Stuart.
The arrest came after Andrew Rowland-Stuart died at his 15th floor flat in Wiltshire House, Lavender Court, Brighton.
Mr Rowland-Stuart was a former lorry driver previously known as Angie or Angela Rowland, Angie or Angela Rowland-Stuart and Andy or Andrew Rowland.
Police said: “Emergency services responded to the incident in Lavender Street shortly after 7.30pm on Monday 27 May.
“Despite the best efforts of paramedics, the victim – identified as 70-year-old Andrew Rowland-Stuart – was sadly pronounced deceased at the scene.
“Joanna Rowland-Stuart, also 70, was arrested and has since been charged with murder.
“She has been remanded in custody to appear before Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Friday 31 May.”
The investigation is known as Operation Putney.
Detective Chief Inspector Alex Campbell, of the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, said: “This is a fast-moving investigation and our inquiries are ongoing as we seek to establish the full circumstances which led to Andrew’s tragic death.
“Our thoughts remain with his loved ones at this difficult time.
“In the meantime, we are urging the public not to speculate but to come forward with any information which may be able to assist us.
“You can report it online via the Major Incident Public Portal.
“You can also contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or report it online.”
Male!!!! Not a woman!!!! Stop putting these crimes in our names!
It’s 2024, woman can commit crimes, plenty of you do and you all get lenient sentences. How’s that for equality.
Interestingly, males generally get more lenient sentences for murdering their spouse/partner than vice versa. Check the stats.
The perp is a MAN. Stop ascribing male crimes to women.
This woman is a man… its insulting to women to call him one.
“In the meantime, we are urging the public not to speculate but to come forward with any information which may be able to assist us”.
Dear Detective Chief Inspector Alex Campbell,
My condolences to the family of Andrew Rowland-Stuart. Here is some Information necessary to assist you and your colleagues.
Joanna Rowland-Stuart is an adult human male, a man. Joanna Rowland-Stuart is not an adult human female, a woman.
Political positioning by our Police works against the needs and rights of victims and leads to a reduction in trust in the Police service. This article is a very good example from many of how our country’s media have destroyed their status and credibility by preferring a very obvious political agenda that demands the reader rejects the evidence of their eyes and their ears. Your Police service have publicly provided many similar examples like this one.
This is a MAN!
So much transphobia in these comments. Shame on you all. Educate yourselves and learn to be kind.
OK not kind to the murderer but the transgender community.
Kindness goes a long way.
#LwiththeT
I don’t understand why there’s so much trans gender hate.
A person got murdered by a fellow human being.
Do women think they’re not capable of committing murder?
Rose West, Myra Hindley, Lucy letby, Beverly Allit and Joanna Dennehy arre just the tip of the iceberg. Women are worse than men for inflicting mental cruelty – which is far far worse than physical cruelty – not just on men but on their own fellow women. They carry out these acts for lengthy periods of time. males tend to inflict things over short periods of time…..FACT
People hate lies. Anyone who want us all to live in a world of lies won’t be looked kindly upon, whoever that might be.
This person isn’t a woman and should not be classified as such either. These days we are constantly talked down to re: misinformation by the media and yet they and the Home Office are the worst for it, even going so far as to tell us that men are women and women are men. It’s absurd, a caricature of 1984.
People tend to believe that there are only 2 ways a society can fall into extremes – Communism or Fascism. Clearly not true. it can also fall into the realm of extreme subjectivity, or anti-reality, a destination that may well be a result of an arrogant universal liberalism, and I say this as someone whose default setting is liberal.
That is no woman.