Help Me

On the morning of 6 June 1991, Penny Bell left her home in Buckinghamshire in her blue Jaguar XJS. She told the builders she was late for a 9:50 appointment. The appointment was not in her diary. At 10:20, her car was spotted on Greenford Road, moving at 10 miles per hour with the hazard lights on. A lorry driver saw a man in the passenger seat. He appeared to be controlling the steering. Through the window, Penny Bell was mouthing the words: help me. By 10:30 she was dead. Stabbed more than fifty times in the front seat of her own car, in a car park with 153 spaces, almost full, on a Thursday morning in broad daylight. Nobody saw anything. Nobody reported seeing a blood-covered man leaving the scene. Nobody has ever been charged. Three days before she died, Penny withdrew £8,500 in cash from the joint account. Used fifties, in a brown manila envelope. The money was never found. Nobody knows what it was for. Her daughter Lauren has been asking questions for thirty years. The file is still open. The man in the passenger seat has never been identified. Penny Bell was 43 years old.