Fresh appeal over station murder

John Coffey was stabbed in the stomach

Police are returning on Sunday to an east London train station where a man was murdered to appeal for more information about the killing.

John Coffey, 52, was robbed and stabbed at Wood Street station, Walthamstow, at about midnight on 6 September.

Two men, aged 33 and 28, arrested in connection with the murder were bailed to return to a police station.

Mr Coffey, originally from Beauford, Co Killarney, is thought to have been stabbed in the stomach on the platform.

He stumbled down a flight of stairs to the road by the station before collapsing.

A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as loss of blood resulting from a stab wound to the stomach.

Mr Coffey, who was living in Hackney, east London, had spent Sunday with a friend in Walthamstow.

At 2200 BST he said he was going to catch the last train home.

His body was found just before midnight. His black wallet, which he normally had with him, was missing.

Address sought

Det Ch Insp Ron Scott, said: "It is vital that we build a picture of what happened in John Coffey's final moments.

"We know he was still expecting a train to arrive at the London-bound platform at Wood Street at 2330 BST on 5 September.

He is next seen by passers-by lying in the station lobby at 2347 BST. We need to speak to anyone who may have been in the area around these times and seen anyone acting suspiciously to contact us."

Officers are also keen to trace Mr Coffey's home address in the Hackney area.

Mr Scott added: "We believe that John Coffey lived in the London Fields area, possibly in a flat above a pub which could have been run by a landlady.

"We appeal to anyone who has not seen a lodger for several days to contact us as soon as possible."