Guildford Train Murder – Fresh Witness Appeal

Published on: 9 Jan, 2019
Updated on: 11 Jan, 2019

Victim, Lee Pomeroy.

Police have urged anyone who saw a couple “acting in an unusual manner” after a man was stabbed to death on a lunchtime Guildford-Waterloo train on Friday (January 4, 2019) to contact them.

Lee Pomeroy, 51, on a day out with his 14-year-old son, was knifed nine times and found at Horsley station. His attacker, said to be a stranger, had boarded the train with the couple at London Road just after 1pm. The suspect fled the train at Clandon.

Detectives have now appealed for information about a man and a woman with a child seen in the Frensham Great Pond area, near Farnham, later that day.

Darren Pencille, 35, has been charged with murder. Chelsea Mitchell, 27, is charged with assisting an offender.

Mr Pomeroy, from Guildford, who ran an IT company, died from multiple knife wounds, including one to his neck, a post-mortem showed.

Det Ch Insp Sam Blackburn, of British Transport Police, said a couple briefly stopped at a car park on Bacon Lane. He appealed for anyone who may have seen them between 17:45 and 18:35 to contact officers, and added they would have been “acting in an unusual or out of character manner”.

They would have also been with a young child and arrived and departed in a blue Vauxhall Corsa, he said.

“If you were at the Frensham Great Pond car park during this time, please do get in touch because you might hold information which could help us uncover any new evidence,” he said.

DCI Blackburn searches had been mounted in the Clandon area of Surrey and at a property in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

Mr Pencille and Ms Mitchell were arrested early on Saturday and appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Monday. They were remanded in custody until February 7.