Clapham Murder: Man Charged Over Poynders Road Death

A man has been charged with murder after a 39-year-old was found dead at an address on Poynders Road in Clapham. The Metropolitan Police says Leroy Heffron, 38 (05.11.1987), of Sangley Road, Catford, was charged on Thursday 10 September and remanded in custody (Met). The force said he would appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a first hearing that day.

The victim has been named by police as Thomas Carey, 39, from Lambeth. His next of kin are being supported by specialist officers.

The investigation is not finished, and the Met is still asking for information. The appeal names a specific window: the evening of Thursday 3 September into the early hours of Friday 4 September, the night before officers were called.

What the Met says happened

The force’s account, across three statements, is short.

• At around 20:35 on Friday 4 September, officers were called by the London Fire Brigade to an address on Poynders Road, SW4.
• Police attended with the London Ambulance Service and found a man in his 30s with serious head injuries.
• He was pronounced dead at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services (Met, 5 September).
• A murder investigation was launched the following day, led by Detective Chief Inspector Alison Foxwell. A crime scene was put in place.
• On Monday 7 September the victim was named as Thomas Carey (Met, 7 September).
• On Tuesday 8 September officers arrested two men in their 30s on suspicion of murder. A woman in her 30s was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
• On Thursday 10 September one man was charged. The other man was bailed pending further enquiries. The woman remained in police custody at the time of the statement.

That is the whole of the public record. Criminal proceedings are now active, so this report carries only what the force has published. We are not reporting what happened at court, and we are not going beyond the Met’s own wording.

The appeal is still open

Both of the Met’s senior officers on the case used their statements to ask for help from people living nearby.

DCI Foxwell said: “Our enquiries remain ongoing, and we continue to appeal for information. We urge anyone who may have seen or heard anything unusual on in the evening of Thursday, 3 September into the early morning of Friday, 4 September to reach out and speak to us.” The wording is the force’s own, including the slip in that sentence.

The date matters. The man was found on the evening of Friday 4 September, but the window officers are asking about starts the night before.

Detective Chief Superintendent Emma Bond, who leads policing in the local area, said: “We know this incident has caused concern and sadness across the local community, particularly among those who knew Thomas.” She added that residents “may continue to see an increased police presence in the area over the coming days”.

What it means for you. If you live on or near Poynders Road, this is what the Met is asking for:

• Anything you saw or heard between the evening of Thursday 3 September and the early hours of Friday 4 September.
• CCTV, doorbell footage or dashcam footage from that period.
• Call 101 and quote CAD7021/04SEP26.
• Or submit material through the Met’s Major Incident Public Portal for this operation.
• Or, anonymously, Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or crimestoppers-uk.org.

Expect more officers around Clapham Park for a while yet. The Met has said anyone with questions should speak to officers on patrol.

Where this happened

Poynders Road is the A205 South Circular where it runs east to west through Clapham Park, between Clapham South and Streatham Hill. It is in the SW4 postcode district and the Clapham Park ward of Lambeth, in the Clapham and Brixton Hill constituency. It is a main road with housing along both sides and Clapham Common a short distance to the north. The A205 is one of the six arterial routes covered on our Lambeth roadworks and travel page.

The Met has not released the address, and neither will we.

What the recorded crime figures show for the ward

When the investigation was launched, DCI Foxwell said: “At this stage, we believe this was an isolated incident and there is no evidence to suggest any wider risk to the public.”

The Home Office street-level data for Clapham Park supports that reading. Using the ward boundary, 116 crimes were recorded in the ward in July 2026, the most recent month published (data.police.uk). The largest categories were:

• Violent crime: 37
• Anti-social behaviour: 35
• Burglary: 12
• Other theft: 7
• Drugs: 6

The two months before that were 101 crimes in June and 89 in May. Two points of caution on those figures. The published data runs two months behind, so nothing from September appears in it yet. And “violent crime” in this dataset is a broad category that runs from harassment upwards; homicide is not recorded separately.

Sources

• Metropolitan Police, “Man charged with murder following death in Lambeth”, 10 September 2026 for the charge, the name, date of birth and address given by the force, the remand, the first hearing, the arrests on 8 September, the bail and custody position, the CAD reference and both officer quotes.
• Metropolitan Police, “Victim named in Lambeth murder”, 7 September 2026 for the naming of Thomas Carey and the position at that date.
• Metropolitan Police, “Murder investigation launched in Lambeth”, 5 September 2026 for the 20:35 call from the London Fire Brigade, the scene, and the “isolated incident” assessment.
• data.police.uk for the street-level crime counts, queried against the Clapham Park ward boundary for May, June and July 2026.
• Location, ward and constituency checked against postcodes.io for the SW4 stretch of Poynders Road.

Criminal proceedings are active. This report is limited to what the Metropolitan Police has published. A charge is not a conviction, and nothing here should be read as a finding about any person.