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Me Meanwhile, it emerged yesterday that the housing association address add where the man and woman w were arrested was visited by police on N November 29.

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Locals said t they had called police more than once over anti-social behaviour. One neighbour reported rep a heated row over a parking ki space. Armed officers smashed down the property’s front door.

One neighbour in the block said of previous incidents involving residents at the address: “The housing association are too slow to do anything. This morning, armed police smashed the door in.”

Another neighbour,

Grant Christy, said:

“Initially, I just heard the banging.

“It sounded l i ke someone trying to kick the door in, that’s what it sounded like to start with. Then I heard the police shouting.” Another resident, who asked not to be named, told how the man and woman arrested in the raid had moved in a few months ago.

He said: “They have only just moved in. Just a few months ago. He wasn’t there to begin with, he moved in after she did.”

Speaking of the dawn raid arrests, he added: “It woke us up. They smashed the door in that opens outwards. They were beating on it for about five or ten minutes. I didn’t see either of them on Friday. She is white with black curly hair and he is a black guy.”

A blue Vauxhall Corsa was taken away y from the scene yesterday. . Estate agent Wendie Thompson, who lives nearby, said: “The officers were here when I woke at 8am.

“Police have been active all day, on guard outside the flats.

“I think there were detectives and armed response officers.”

The 59-year-old, who has lived in the area for 11 years, said she believes she saw a man matching the description of the suspect on Thursday morning, standing using a mobile phone in the nearby Farnham Hospital car park.

She said: “He was notic noticeable because he was tall and immaculately im dressed in sportswe sportswear, which drew

my attention. He f fits the descrip- tion and was a new face here. It was unusual.”

Police confirmed they were called to the block over reports of antisocial behaviour. A spokesman for the Surrey force said: “We attended that address on November 29. We’ve had other calls since.”

Lamentable

Philip Herrington, the Rector of St Mary’s Church, West Horsley, visited Horsley train station on the afternoon of the horrific attack and on the following morning.

He said: “You don’t really expect anything like this to happen generally, not in a place like this, not on a midday train. “It’s totally lamentable what happened and particularly for the young son to have witnessed what he witnessed.”

During the manhunt launched on Friday afternoon after the suspect fled the scene, neighbours told how a police chopper circled overhead and a police van used high-powered lights as the search continued after dark.