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Murder of Penny Bell
Summary
Ruth Penelope "Penny" Bell (28 February 1948 – 6 June 1991) was an English businesswoman who was murdered on 6 June 1991 in the car park of Gurnell Leisure Centre, Greenford, London. She was stabbed over fifty times as she sat behind the wheel of her car. Her murder remains unsolved.
Penny Bell lived with her husband, Alistair Bell, in Baker's Wood, near Denham, Buckinghamshire where they moved in October 1987. Penny was a partner in Coverstaff Ltd, a successful employment agency based in Kilburn.
Bell was the mother to two children, Matthew (born c.1978) and Lauren (born 1982).
The family home was undergoing extensive renovations from November 1990, valued at £100,000. Penny had withdrawn £8,500 from her and her husband's joint bank account on 3 June 1991, three days before her death. She had never previously withdrawn such a large sum of cash and it remains unaccounted for. At the police press conference on 8 June 1991, Alistair Bell described Penny as having something on her mind the night before her death, that she fell asleep while watching the television news at 9pm and went to bed early.
On the morning of 6 June 1991, Alistair Bell left the house as usual at 8:30 BST. He described his wife's demeanour as "bright and chirpy". He noted that Penny did not wave him off as he left with their son in his car, as was her usual custom, but believed that this was due to the disruption caused by their kitchen renovation.
Bell left her home in her arctic blue Jaguar XJS at around 9:40 BST, which was her usual leaving time. She informed the builders, who were renovating the kitchen, that she was running late for an appointment. No record of this appointment was later found in her diary or other papers, and it has never been conclusively established who she was meeting. It has been suggested that she could have been collecting someone from the train station, as a train arrived at the station at 9:50. An electrician, who was the last known person to speak to Bell, described her demeanour as "normal and casual".
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