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The parents of Wendy
Knell appeal for information 25 years on

by Andy Gray

The parents of a young woman murdered 25 years ago are
marking the tragic anniversary with a renewed appeal for help to
catch her killer.

Speaking at the launch of a police campaign aimed at finally
bringing the murderer to justice, Pam and Bill Knell - parents
of Wendy Knell - said they remain confident he will be
caught.

Mr
Knell and Mrs Knell pleaded for vital information which might
lead to his capture.

Despite the killer escaping police clutches for a quarter of a
century, retired bus driver Mr Knell, 78, from Tonbridge, said:
"I’m very hopeful and I’ll die happy knowing what happened.

"We're on tenterhooks the whole time of our lives, and nothing
will ever change until he’s caught."

Wendy Knell was brutally murdered at her bedsit in Guildford
Road, Tunbridge Wells, on June 23, 1987.

The 25-year-old shop manager had been sexually assaulted and
beaten.

Police are linking her killing to a second murder in the town
later the same year.

Caroline Pierce, 20, also a shop manager, was also sexually
assaulted and murdered.

She was attacked outside her bedsit home in Grosvenor Park on
November 24.

Her body was later found 40 miles away in a field near St Mary
in the Marsh, Romney Marsh, on December 15.

Caroline Pierce was
found murdered in her Tunbridge Wells bedsit

Both women had been beaten and strangled and lived alone in
basement bedsit flats, and both were brunettes who worked in Camden
Road, Tunbridge Wells.

DCI Rob Vinson, who is leading the hunt for the killer as part
of Operation Greenfinch, said: "Twenty-five years down the line, we
are not going to rest until we find out who did this."

Advances in forensic science have led to the discovery of a full
DNA profile believed to belong to the killer.

Detectives are now exploring further advances around familial
DNA in an attempt to identify who he is.

In a direct message to the killer, DCI Vinson added: "You’ll be
spending every day looking over your shoulder because we are going
to find you."

Pam and Bill Knell appeal
to find the killer of daughter Wendy

Mr and Mrs Knell, who have another daughter Jane, 52, and a son
Philip, 47, as well as five grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren, said the killer’s capture will allow them
"closure" and "a new lease of life".

Mr Knell, whose 78th birthday on Saturday coincides with the
anniversary of his daughter's death, said with the murderer still
at large it has made the prospect of his own death easier to deal
with.

If the killing remains unsolved, he is convinced the mystery
will be revealed when he is reunited with his precious daughter
beyond the grave.

"If he’s not been found by the time I go, she’ll tell me who it
was," he said.

Anyone who has information relating to the murders should call
police on 101.