A man is to appear in court charged with the murder of 16-year-old "gentle giant" Jimmy Mizen.

Jake Fahri, 19, is accused of stabbing the popular churchgoing schoolboy to death at the Three Cooks bakery in Lee, south-east London, on Saturday morning.

Jimmy was killed the day after his 16th birthday as he returned home from buying his first lottery ticket with one of his brothers.

Fahri, of Milborough Crescent, Lee, will appear before Sutton Magistrates' Court, Scotland Yard said.

Jimmy, a 6ft 4in committed Christian, was the 13th teenager to be murdered in London so far this year.

The GCSE student's 26-year-old brother Tommy ran to the scene and cradled him as he lay bleeding to death.

Jimmy's parents, Barry, 56, and Margaret, 55, have paid loving tribute to their "saint" of a son and recalled the happy final few days they spent with him.

Mr Mizen, who is deputy chairman of governors at his son's school, St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive in Eltham, south-east London, said: "He was a dear, dear, sweet young man. We loved him dearly.

"On the night of his birthday he was going out with his friends and we cuddled him. That is just a great, great memory."

The schoolboy, who lived with his family in Dallinger Road, Lee, had been due to embark on an apprenticeship in the housing department at Southwark Council.