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Police investigating the murder of a woman whose body was found in a wheelie bin are hunting a man and a woman believed to have fled abroad.
Surrey Police today named Peter Wallner, 33, and Lilia Fenech, 23, as a couple they want to speak to in connection with the murder.
The woman's body was found after a human foot was seen protruding from the bin outside a house in Cobham.
Detectives are hunting the couple who lived at that house until about three weeks ago.
Police say Mr Wallner hired a VW Crafter van with the registration number RV58 YDX from a rental company in Surrey on 15 May.
The vehicle was captured on Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras on the M25 in Kent and close to the docks at Dover on the night of 17 May.
Mr Wallner is known to have bought two tickets for a cross-channel ferry that night.
The couple may also have three dogs travelling with them - two Jack Russells and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
The former chef, who was born in Germany, is described as a heavy-built white man with broad shoulders, roughly six feet in height, with slightly-receding brown cropped hair and brown eyes.
Forensics found the "body of a white woman, believed to be in her thirties, which had been surrounded by rubbish".
Police say Mr Wallner left the address about three weeks ago.
The semi-detached house is metres from a children's play area.
Neighbour Brenda Hall, 74, said: "I was horrified. It just freaks me out to think it happened so close to home."
Reader views (2)
Woe betide him if he put the body in the wrong bin. Should a body go in'Recycling' or in 'Composting?' I think, "Balls, Oinglernd", that only a foot was sticking out, the rest was in there. That's another crime, overloading the bin so the lid won't fit.
- Paul, London
Now, I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for this. And after all, it was only a foot, and perhaps some other bits, but let's not blow this out of proportion shall we.
- Balls, Oinglernd
