POLICE have still to trace six people who they believe could hold vital information that could lead them to the killer of a Hampshire grandmother.
As the inquiry reaches its six-month anniversary since the murder of 77-year-old Georgina Edmonds, detectives are reissuing an appeal for the witnesses to come forward.
Officers have been trying to trace people who were in the Tesco Express store at Twyford Road in Eastleigh when the prime suspect in the murder case is known to have used a cash card stolen from Mrs Edmonds at the ATM outside.
Initially more than 50 people who were captured on CCTV in the store at the crucial time were being sought in an effort to identify the suspect.
Three months on from when the images were first released and police are still trying to find six people who they have so far failed to trace.
Their pictures have been displayed on a board at the Twyford Road store but have so far not been identified.
A Hampshire police spokesman said: "We still want to find out who these people are and speak to them as they may have information that could help the investigation team. They may not even know that they have seen something that could help us identify the suspect so it is vital we speak to them."
All the witnesses were at the store between 10pm and 11pm on Friday, January 11, the day of the murder. Around 10.40pm a man wearing a yellow florescent jacket attempted to use Mrs Edmonds's cash card at the cash machine outside.
Mrs Edmonds was brutally killed at her Brambridge home at Kiln lane where she had lived for 30 years. Officers believe she had been tortured by her killer in a bid to extract her PIN from her. A post-mortem examination revealed she had been stabbed more than ten times before being bludgeoned to death.
At its height, the inquiry has involved around 400 officers and 90 police staff.
