A man has been charged with the manslaughter of an 83-year-old strictly Orthodox woman from Stamford Hill.
Police found Evelyn Kelmenson, with her legs bound by duct tape, in the top-floor bedroom of her three-storey house on Leweston Place on January 1 2009, after her niece had raised the alarm.
A year later, police offered a £20,000 reward for information.
Kuba Dlugosz, 32, a Polish national of no fixed address, appeared at Havering Magistrates Court on Wednesday. He was remanded in custody and also charged with burglary.