A 24-year-old man was today appearing before magistrates charged with murdering a mother-of-two found dead inside a wardrobe.

Mark Paul Wilkinson was due to appear before magistrates in Liverpool following the death of Nicole Lewis, 24.

Her body was discovered in a wardrobe in the front bedroom of a terraced house in Tuebrook on Tuesday evening.

Ms Lewis, the mother of a one-year-old daughter and two-year-old son, used to live at the house but had moved out before her death.

A post-mortem revealed she died from asphyxiation.