Murder squad follows up 140 leads

Police think the missing key could help them find the killer

Detectives investigating the murder of a Kent doctor found stabbed to death on her driveway have had more than 140 calls about the case.

Police have made inquiries at more than 120 homes, taken 225 statements and given 2,000 leaflets to drivers, after the killing of Dr Victoria Anyetei.

The consultant paediatrician was found in her car in Dartford on 14 August.

Her Toyota car key, thought to have been taken by the murderer, has still not been found.

Det Ch Insp Anne Brittain said: "We have not yet located this key and are still keen to hear from anyone who has any information on its whereabouts."

She said officers were following leads from the "large amount of information" accumulated so far, but still wanted to hear from witnesses.

And she said 22 officers and staff on the murder inquiry team were analysing 142 pieces of information.

Leather fob

Dr Anyetei, 54, a locum at St Thomas' Hospital, London, left for work at 0800 BST on the day she was killed, but was found dead, hours later, by her son, a 20-year-old student.

A qualified doctor for about 20 years, the divorced Ghanaian woman had worked across the South East before moving to work in London.

Last month, officers said the missing car key could help find her killer.

Officers said the key was "a standard type" on a leather fob with a metal Toyota insert - the fob may also have held a smaller silver key as well.