Train killer ‘was made paranoid by pot’

A train passenger accused of murdering an IT consultant stopped taking his anxiety medication but used cannabis on a daily basis which could ‘make him paranoid’, a court heard. Darren Pencille, 36, knifed 51-year-old Lee Pomeroy 18 times in less than 30 seconds on board the Guildford to London Waterloo train on January 4. The Old Bailey has heard how an argument broke out after Pencille made a ‘snide’ remark as he jostled past the Mr Pomeroy and his 14-year-old…

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