By James Simons-
The police force has offered a £20,000 reward for credible information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for the murders of a man and a woman, found dead in their homes att wo separate locations.
Cops have expressed confidence that Neil Peacock- the man they have discovered on a canal barge near Ferrymead Avenue in Ealing, West London- is their chief suspect in the two murders. The man police had been on a run for nearly a week, making his discovery a surprise to cops who discovered he had sustained serious injuries, believed to have been self-inflicted.
Cops and the family of the victims would desperately want the man alive to account for the serious crimes he is suspected to have committed. Peacock is believed to have been trying to kill himself to escape punishment.
The man has previously been named as a person they were keen to locate in connection with an investigation into the deaths of Ms Pickles and Mr Ashmore in Westminster on Thursday, August 19.
London Ambulance Service paramedics and the London Air Ambulance were called to take the man to hospital, where his condition is believed to be life-threatening.
Sharon Pickles, 45, and Clinton Ashmore, 59, were discovered fatally stabbed at separate locations last Thursday and early on Friday, and police are treating the deaths as linked. Ms Pickles, was found with a knife injury and pronounced dead at the scene.
Peacock was seen at North Wembley station on the evening of 19 August – hours before Ms Pickles and Mr Ashmore were killed.
Clinton Ashmore (left) and Sharon Pickles (right) were found dead Image: MET POLICE
Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Jolley, from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, said on Tuesday his thoughts were with the families of the victims.
“This is a shocking crime and we will not rest until we bring the person or persons responsible to justice,” he said.
Asked if Mr Peacock was being treated as dangerous, a Met Police spokesman said the murders were not being treated as random.