Fresh appeal for witnesses to Kenton mugging murder (From Harrow Times)

Molly Morgan murder case still ongoing

3:03pm Friday 27th February 2009 in News By Tristan Kirk

COPS have issued the first descriptions of people they want to speak to in connection with the murder of a pensioner in Kenton.

Molly Morgan, 81, was dragged to the ground and fatally injured when her handbag was snatched from her shoulder as she walked along Streatfield Avenue.

The Queensbury resident was on her way to a lecture she had helped organised when she was mugged, and died hours later in Northwick Park Hospital.

Detective Inspector Richard Ambrose, who is now leading the murder hunt, today revealed two young men, one black and one Asian, were spotted running along Streatfield Avenue towards Kenton Library immediately after the attack, and appealed for anyone who saw them to come forward.

Officers are also looking for a man in grey jogging bottoms who was walking ahead of Mrs Morgan at the time she was attacked.

Mrs Morgan was mugged at around 7.40pm on Thursday, January 15, and her handbag which contained an extension cable, a gold and brown Primark umbrella, and an empty Sainsburys carrier bag was taken.

Following a mass leaflet drop by the murder investigation team, the extension cable was handed in by a member of the public who had found it on the night of the attack.

The handbag, which had a distinctive pattern, was also seen in the same place, close to the junction between Northwick Avenue and Rushout Avenue, but police have been unable to find it so far.

After the attack which killed her mother, Mrs Morgan's daughter Hilary made a tearful plea to the public for information to catch the killers.

She said: “I am full of pain, sadness and frustration, because can't understand how anyone could do this to my mum.

“The person responsible is still out there and could do the same thing again to anyone's mum or gran.

“The most important thing to me is to find the person who killed my mum.”

DI Ambrose said: "This is still an active murder investigation and I still have a number of enquiries to conclude.

“I would appeal to anyone who has recovered or seen the handbag and its outstanding contents to contact police.

“If anyone saw the two youths running along Streatfield Road or the man in the grey jogging bottoms, I would urge them to come forward and contact us on 0208 358 0300 or Crimestoppers, anonymously on 0800 555 111."