london a 22yearold tunisian man who was arrested earlier has been charged with the murder of indianorigin student sabita thanwani and appeared in custody at highbury corner magistrates court in london on tuesdaymaher maaroufe who the police said had been in a relationship with the student was hunted down by scotland yard after the discovery of thanwanis body in her student accommodation in clerkenwell area of london on saturdayhe was arrested on suspicion of the 19yearold psychology students murder and assault on sunday a postmortem examination carried out at whittington hospital in london on monday gave the cause of thanwanis death as sharp force trauma to the neck the metropolitan police saiddetectives investigating the death of sabita thanwani in clerkenwell have charged a man with murder maher maaroufe 22 of no fixed address has also been charged with assaulting an emergency worker the met police said in a statementdetectives from the mets specialist crime command are investigating and continue to provide support to sabitas family the statement addedthanwani a british national was found with serious injuries to her neck at arbour house student flats in clerkenwell area of london and pronounced dead at the scene on saturday on monday her family paid tribute to their beautiful and irreplaceable angel whose life was cut tragically shortthe family said sabita was the most caring and loving person we have ever known she inspired us every day of her precious 19 years of life her mission was to help everyoneshe was studying psychology at city university to make this happen her whole life was ahead of her a life where her radiant smile and incredible heart could only spread warmth and kindnessover the weekend the met police had issued an urgent manhunt for maaroufe who had reportedly been with thanwani on fridaymaaroufe had been in a relationship with sabita but he was not a student he is a tunisian national of no fixed address detective chief inspector linda who is leading the investigation had said in her appeala spokesperson for city university of london said it was working closely with unite students which runs the student accommodation where the body was foundas a university we will do everything we can to support our students and staff and we will continue to fully support the police with their investigation a university spokesperson said