On homomorphism spaces of metrizable groups

For two not necessarily commutative topological groups G and T , let H(G, T ) denote the space of all continuous homomorphisms from G to T with the compact-open topology. We prove that if G is metrizable and T is compact then H(G, T ) is a k-space. As a consequence we obtain that if G1 is a dense subgroup of G then H(G1, T ) is homeomorphic to H(G,T ), and if G is separable h-complete, then the natural map G → C(H(G, T ), T ) is open onto its image.