On 10 August, a body was discovered wrapped in a black bed sheet inside a black bag in the loft of the home of Sharp's grandmother, after police visited it for the fourth time. It was later announced that two further arrests had been made: Sharp's grandmother, Christine Bicknell, on suspicion of murder, and Bicknell's neighbour, Paul Meehan, on suspicion of assisting an offender. Shortly after Hazell's arrest,
memory cards were recovered from Christine Bicknell's residence. One was particularly well hidden in a door frame on the ground floor of the property. Police were able to recover images and videos, some of which had been deleted. Some of the files portrayed Sharp in sexual positions, believed to have been taken post-mortem, whereas others were voyeuristic images of when Sharp was still alive, for example videos of her applying moisturiser to her legs, or of her asleep in her bedroom.
Forensic psychologist Keri Nixon suggested that Hazell may have kept these images for later sexual gratification. In the early hours of 12 August, Hazell was charged with the murder of Sharp. He appeared before Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on 13 August via video-link. No plea was entered and the case was committed to the Old Bailey for trial, with a first appearance on 15 August, also via video-link, with a preliminary hearing set for 19 November and a provisional trial date set for 21 January 2013. He was remanded in custody to
Belmarsh prison where he was kept in isolation for his own safety. A
post-mortem on the body began on 10 August, and paused later that day. By 16 August, the post-mortem had still not been completed, but at an inquest into the death, which opened that day, it was confirmed that the body was that of Sharp. The moderate decomposition of the body meant the post-mortem later concluded without establishing the cause of death. Experts told
This is Croydon Today that the delay in finding the body made it much harder to establish the cause of death, and that without a cause of death the prosecution would find it much harder to build a case. However, detectives suspected, and it was widely reported, that Sharp was smothered, although this was not officially proven to be the cause of death. Nixon suggested that Hazell may have made sexual advances towards Tia, and murdered her when she rebuffed him and threatened to tell her mother. Sharp was cremated on 14 September, after a private family
funeral. ==Court proceedings==