A WOMAN has been charged with murder after a woman in her 70s died in Stanford-le-Hope.

Keeley Barnard, 51, of Hopkins Mead, Chelmsford was charged by police last night following the death of the elderly woman in Milton Road, Stanford-le-Hope on Sunday.

Following the 51-year-old woman's arrest and charge in connection to the woman's death, Barnard will appear at Basildon Magistrates Court today.

The post mortem on the woman found that she died from compression of the neck.