Pictured: Man, 35, accused of stabbing father, 51, nine times on a train in front of 14-year-old
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The suspect accused of knifing to death an IT consultant on a London-bound train in front of his young son hid in the dock today after telling the court he was ‘hearing voices’ and feeling ‘paranoid’.
Darren Pencille, 35, from Farnham, Surrey, is accused of stabbing Lee Pomeroy, 51, nine times on the South Western Railway service from Guildford to Waterloo last Friday lunchtime in an attack caught on CCTV.
There was speculation at the weekend that a ‘trivial’ row broke out between Pencille and Mr Pomeroy after the pair accidentally bumped into each other as they boarded the train.
Today the murder suspect decided to sit on the floor of the glass dock at Staines Magistrates’ Court, claiming he was ‘hearing voices’ and was ‘too paranoid’ to stand up.
Wearing a grey tracksuit and black, thick-rimmed glasses, Pencille was heard muttering ‘get me out of here’ to the two security guards flanking him.
As he was taken away he told chair of the bench Helen Mattey: ‘I’m innocent until proven guilty’.
Pencille, who is charged with murder and possessing an offensive weapon, did not enter any pleas and said he had no fixed abode.
But police said when they charged him on Sunday he lived with Chelsea Mitchell, 27, who was also before magistrates accused of assisting an offender.
Both appeared again at Guildford Crown Court this afternoon and they were remanded in custody to appear again at the same court on February 7.
