Police used the full range of 21st-century investigative techniques to catch the suspected Surrey train killer. The body of Lee Pomeroy was discovered by horrified commuters when the 12.58 from Guildford to Waterloo pulled into Horsley station in Surrey just after 1.10pm on Friday. The manhunt that followed lasted 17 hours before detectives tracked down a suspect in Farnham, Surrey, early yesterday morning. During that time, dozens of officers from British Transport Police and the Surrey force are understood to have gathered ticketing data from London Road station in Guildford, where Pomeroy and his attacker boarded the train, CCTV footage from South Western Railway, mobile phone data from nearby masts, and deployed drones and a helicopter over the surrounding countryside. A source close to the…

Source: The Times January 06, 2019 00:03 UTC