Surrey train stabbing suspect ‘evaded police when his lover picked him up in her car’
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The man suspected of stabbing a father to death on a train is believed to have evaded police when his lover allegedly picked him up in her car and drove him 15 miles away from the scene.
IT consultant Lee Pomeroy, 51, was knifed multiple times on a Guildford to London Waterloo train on Friday afternoon while on his way to the capital for a day out with his boy.
His 14-year-old son sat by his side as he lay on the platform dying and the killer fled the train.
Police believe that the 35-year-old suspect may have been driven from the Clandon area to Farnham, where officers arrested him and a 27-year-old woman.
Officers raided a ground-floor flat that belongs to a woman named Chelsea Mitchell, The Sunday Times reports.
Neighbours said that she has lived at the property for about six months with a male partner, who was described as ‘aggressive’ and confrontational.
British Transport Police said today that detectives investigating the stabbing have been given another 12 hours to question his suspected killer.
Friday’s tragic sequence of events unfolded as Mr Pomeroy was with
Witnesses told The Sun that the two men bumped into one another before a row exploded, ending in the stabbing.
He was somehow drawn into an argument with another passenger – a man unknown to him – who had boarded the same train.
Their row lasted some three minutes, with the two men moving at one stage from carriage to carriage. It ended abruptly in a burst of what police called ‘extraordinary violence’.
Mr Pomeroy, from Guildford, Surrey, was stabbed multiple times, at least once across his neck. Despite frantic efforts to keep him alive, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The father, who would have turned 52 on Sunday, was described by his family as a ‘an honourable man and would always help somebody who was in trouble’.
In a statement released by British Transport Police (BTP), Mr Pomeroy’s family said: ‘Lee took
