Man arrested after dog walker killed in hit-and-run crash

A man has been arrested after a “loving mother” and her two dogs were killed just days before Christmas in a collision with a car in northeast London.

Marie Theobald, 48, from Hainault, was walking with two dogs in Chigwell, close to the Essex border, when she was struck by what was believed to have been a white Seat Leon at just after 5pm on Friday.

Emergency services including an air ambulance attended the crash but Theobald was pronounced dead at the scene, as were the dogs.

The driver failed to stop but the car that was suspected to have been involved in the incident was found near by.

Specialist officers from the Metropolitan Police have been supporting the family.

Officers said that a man