Murder of Penny Bell

Penny Bell
Born	Ruth Penelope Bell February 28, 1948(1948-02-28)
Died	June 6, 1991(1991-06-06) (aged 43) Perivale, Greenford, London
Cause of death	Knife wounds

Ruth Penelope Bell (11 February 1948 – 6 June 1991) was an English businesswoman who was murdered on 6 June 1991 in Perivale, Greenford, London. She was stabbed 50 times as she sat behind the wheel of her car in the car park of the Gurnell Leisure Centre. Her murder is presently unsolved.

Murder

At the time of her death Mrs Bell lived with her husband and two children, then aged eleven and nine in Bakers Wood, Denham, Buckinghamshire and was a partner in a successful catering employment agency, based in Kilburn, north London.

On the day she was murdered Mrs Bell left home at 9.40am telling the builders, who were renovating her home, that she was late for a 9.50am appointment. No record of this appointment was found in her diary and it has not been established to this day who she was meeting.

Witnesses recalled the car driving along Greenford Road at about 10am very slowly with its hazard lights flashing. A witness came forward some time after the murder and claimed he saw her driving into the car park with a passenger, and silently mouthing an appeal for help, which he ignored.^[1]

She was found stabbed more than 50 times in the driver's seat of her car in the Gurnell Leisure Centre car park, close to the A40, which connects Denham to central London. Carpet display samples were laid out on the back seat. The hazard lights were still flashing when Penny Bell's body was discovered around noon.

Investigation

To this day, nobody has been charged with Bell's murder, although Robert Napper is a suspect. A reward of £15,000 has been offered.^[2]

References

1. ^ Beth Neil [1] Mirror News 28 August 2006
2. ^ Reward in mother murder mystery

• Motiveless Murder: Who Killed Penny Bell? Also The Death Of Mrs Knight And The Trial Of Sarah Harvey, ISBN 978-1858750248

External links

• Gurnell Leisure Centre
• The day I lost mum and my memory Daughter's memories
• Reward in mother murder mystery
• Murder reward
• Unsolved: woman knifed in Jaguar
• Robert Napper faces questions about three unsolved knife murders of women
• Murder appeal
• Gone but not forgotten Possibility of DNA from bloodstains.
• Penny Bell – Greenford True Crime Library
• MURDERED MUM I CAN'T REMEMBER
• Penny Bell memorial site

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