#avon and somerset police

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so uh just in case you thought acab is not applicable in the uk:

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CPS declined to charge undercover police officer who deceived woman into 19-year relationship

Senior officers convened in 2013 to hear ‘unbelievably bad’ news about relationship

Prosecutors did not hear evidence from victim before deciding not to charge officer for misconduct

Woman not told true identity of man with whom she has a child until 2020, when they were engaged

Rob Evans and Aamna Mohsin, 12:00, Wednesday 27th December 2023

The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue charges against an undercover police officer who deceived a woman into a 19-year relationship without even hearing evidence from the victim in the case.

The CPS, which says its fundamental role is to support victims and protect the public, was informed in 2014 that an undercover officer at Avon and Somerset police had used his undercover identity to deceive the woman, who was innocent of any crime, into a long-term relationship.

The relationship had at that point already lasted more than a decade and resulted in the couple having a child together. The CPS, after receiving a file of evidence from Avon and Somerset police, concluded in March 2015 that the undercover officer should not face criminal prosecution for misconduct in public office.

However, the file did not contain any evidence from his victim, who could not be interviewed about the case because she had not been informed about the deception. The woman, whom the Guardian is referring to as Mary to protect her identity, was not informed about the true identity of her partner until five years later, in 2020.]

(link to full article in the guardian here)

now the guardian were also kind enough to create a timeline of this cop's abhorrent behaviour:

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Timeline

Undercover officer's 19-year deception

2001

Undercover police officer begins relationship with ‘Mary’ using his fictitious identity. The couple later have a child together

2013

Avon and Somerset police hold an emergency meeting at which senior officers are told the undercover officer has been deceiving a woman for more than a decade. Representatives of the Association of Chief Police Officers attend meeting

2015

Crown Prosecution Service decides not to prosecute the officer. The Independent Police Complaints Commission, an official watchdog that has since been disbanded, is also understood to have examined the case and decided to take no action

2016

Avon and Somerset police inform the public inquiry into undercover policing, led by the retired judge Sir John Mitting, about the case

2018

The newly formed official watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, starts investigating the case

2020

Avon and Somerset police finally disclose to Mary that her partner of 19 years was an undercover officer living a double life. By that point, they are engaged to be married]

so according to the cps, "there was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction" and the matter regarding mary being informed was a police matter, and both of those are very interesting things to say considering mary would not be informed of the deception for another five years. they were making choices for her without even telling her.

and thats also interesting because see in the uk, there is a law on the books that allows victims of alleged crime to ask a different cps officer to review their case if they received a decision not to prosecute.

thats the law stated as to why another review cannot happen because mary did not exercise that right.

mind you that mary was still not aware that her long time partner, who was a stepdad to one of her children and dad to another, was an undercover police officer. she would not find out for at least another five years.

so its really interesting as to how she was supposed to exercise that right.

also, mind you that the crown prosecution service was one of the six, count'em six public bodies who were aware of the deception, and at any point, they could have informed mary.

kinda feels like theyre witholding her right there, doesnt it?

i mean, former victims' commissioner vera baird believes so: "they deliberately eroded her rights by not telling her she has it. there is guidance in the cps that they should discuss complex issues with victims. but the only way you can trigger the victims’ right to review is if the cps tell her that they’ve had it and they’ve decided not to prosecute it. that is absolutely their obligation."

it is so clear that at no point did anyone have marys best interests in mind. because why would you? its not like shes the damn victim in all of this.

dont you all love how corrupt the cps and police in the uk are?

further into the article, mary's family describes the officer as "manipulative and controlling" which is unfortunately no surprise considering he was a fucking cop, and on top of that, a cop who was happy to lie to his girlfriend for 19 years.

its also made clear that theres no reason for him to lie to mary. she was not involved with whatever crimes he was investigating; in fact, she had absolutely no connections to it.

instead, he just lied to her for 19 years and several public bodies all lied for him too. because you dont grass on your friends, even when youre fully grown adults and in positions of considerable power.

oh and theres also this:

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Also at the meeting were attendees from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), the now-defunct body that represented the most senior officers in England and Wales. It was a delicate time for ACPO, which was linked to an emerging scandal involving a host of other undercover police officers who had deceived women into relationships as part of operations to monitor mostly leftwing protest groups.]

just in case you needed to be reminded that the police are a corrupt organisation and you should never trust a police officer.

[petnews2day]

Cygnet killed by dog off lead in city gardens

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/bLH5u

Cygnet killed by dog off lead in city gardens

A cygnet has been killed by a dog which was off its lead in a city’s historic gardens. Bishop’s Palace and Gardens in Wells, Somerset, confirmed Grace the cygnet had died after a “spaniel-type dog” entered the moat on Friday. It said Grace “put up an amazing effort to fight off the dog and save […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/bLH5u #DogNews #AvonAndSomersetPolice, #BishopSPalace, #Dog, #Facebook, #HistoricGardens

[ironwilledf-up]

Tw for like DV, cops, nightmares, suicide, SH, drugs, the hot mess that was my life.

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I had another nightmare last night, I was right back on that dirty concrete floor wearing nothing but light pyjamas and being painfully restrained by the police for the crime of being choked by my ex and trying to jump off a balcony.

I really couldn't tell you what is worse, losing my career in healthcare to a charge of assault on a cop which was merely a fight response to their assault on me, their nearly letting me die in custody while on bail after I took a major overdose and got arrested for as far as I'm aware fuck all because I never got a charge that time but it still took em a full day to take me to hospital for poisoning treatment or the fact that I now have to relive these incidents over and over and if I talk about it I fear I'll be told I'm lying.

You know, like I had to have a probation officer tell me every 2 weeks for a full year that I'm lying. My funded lawyer thought I was lying and didn't even try to fight my case, he just told me to plead guilty to avoid prison.

Funny how my emdr therapist knows I'm not lying though isn't it you fucking cop bastards.

No, maybe the worst part is knowing that I'm literally on my own because if I am a victim of a crime now, there's no way in hell I would call the cops.

No wait no I got it. The worst part was having to pay compensation to a police officer while I was unemployed. Like, as a carer I got spat at by old ladies with dementia tons of times, got kicked in the stomach by an old man, ass grabbed plenty of times. I never got any compensation. When you're a cop you can abuse vulnerable women and when they snap you can get them done for it and get paid £££

Interesting that at least one of the 4 police involved in the initial incident has been fired for misconduct, but not only will I never get justice I also have to pay for mental health treatment because the nhs has never helped me either. Despite the years on a nursing degree I essentially worked for the nhs for free. Nope, two weeks on a drip and then discharged from the hospital saying I'd finish the job. Bouncing from cmht to small treatment service nobody ever knowing what the hell to do with me.

Fuck the cops, fuck the nhs, fuck how the world treats trauma survivors.

Honestly this is only the tip of the fucking trauma iceberg and I'm so so tired of reliving all this shit.

[georgia-stanway]

Now, I can see west ham do not care about this match but if they could score some goals and not let the Ted's score anymore that would be great.

[ukrfeminism]

Knife crime against women and girls has more than doubled in five years and campaigners are warning that not enough is being done to keep them safe.

New figures obtained by The Independent show the number of women who were killed, injured or threatened by a knife soared from 6,000 in 2018 to more than 13,700 in 2022 – laying bare the scale of the crisis. The offences include ones relating to robbery, rape, homicide, public order and theft.

Elianne Andam, 15, is among the victims of knife crime, having been killed on her way to school in Croydon last September. Mehak Sharma, 19, was stabbed to death in the same borough last November having just moved to the UK from India.

Campaigners say the statistics, which cover the last available full year of 2022, show the country needs to tackle the crisis, particularly when it relates to domestic violence, with Labour MP Jess Phillips warning: “Things are getting progressively worse.”

Nick Gazzard, whose 20-year-old daughter Hollie died after being stabbed 14 times by her violent ex-boyfriend in 2014, said: “If this was terrorism, there would be a national outcry.”

The figures for 2022 reveal that:

The number of female knife crime victims surged by 43 per cent in the West Midlands, from 1,010 in 2018 to 1,448 in 2022, according to the UK’s second-largest force

In Essex, the number of victims more than quadrupled in the same time frame – from 435 to 1,879 

And Avon and Somerset recorded the number of victims as rising 46 per cent over five years, from 593 to 868 

After a Freedom of Information request made by this publication, 26 of the UK’s 43 police forces provided data on knife crime where the victim was either a girl or a woman. The Metropolitan Police, Britain’s largest force, did not respond. 

The latest full-year countrywide figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), also for 2022, show that 282 homicides – or four out of 10 – were committed using a knife or sharp instrument. This represented a 19 per cent increase over the previous year.

Police said the way knife crimes are recorded had changed in 2019 but they could not attribute the rise in figures to those changes.

Knives and sharp instruments are the most common weapons used to kill women in this country. ONS data shows that, in the year ending March 2022, one in three female homicide victims was killed by a partner or ex (33 per cent), while more than one in 10 died at the hands of a relative (13 per cent). Some 40 per cent of the deaths occurred in or around the home, compared to 7 per cent in the street or other public spaces.

Ms Phillips has long championed the fight against domestic violence but says the government’s Domestic Abuse Bill does not do enough to protect women. The MP for Birmingham Yardley blames a reduction in youth services and workers, local council cuts, and a lack of police and judicial resources for fuelling the crisis.

The MP, who every year in parliament reads out the names of women killed by men, said: “Things are getting progressively worse, knife crime against women is classic domestic abuse but that’s not ever included in knife crime strategy.

“If only they [the government] cared as much about sexual and domestic abuse as they care about Rwanda.”

The law currently states killers who bring a weapon to the scene face a minimum 25-year sentence, while sentences for those who do not start at 15 years. As domestic killers are more likely to use a weapon lying around the house, like a kitchen knife, they can end up with more lenient jail terms.

Carole Gould has campaigned to close the legal loophole ever since her 17-year-old daughter Ellie was killed by her boyfriend of three months when she ended the relationship.

Thomas Griffiths was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12-and-a-half years in 2019 after he walked into Ellie’s family home, strangled her and then stabbed her 13 times, attempting to frame the attack as a suicide by inserting the knife in the side of her neck.

“She’d only been going out with him for a few months,” her mother said. “The ending of a relationship is the most dangerous time in a woman’s life.”

Campaigner Ngozi Fulani told The Independent that the cost of living crisis may also have had an impact on the rise in crimes against women.

Ms Fulani set up the charity Sistah Space to advocate for Black female victims of domestic abuse in the wake of the deaths of Valerie Forde and her 22-month-old daughter Jahzara. They were both stabbed to death in 2014 by Ms Forde’s ex Roland McKoy, who was jailed for 35 years.

“We have seen a significant rise in reporting to us of knife or sharp instrument attacks,” Ms Fulani said. “We are in a time of economic depression right now and we find perpetrators in unstable economic situations will often become violent.”

Sistah Space has campaigned for Valerie’s Law, legislation that would make specialist training mandatory for all police and other government agencies that support black women and girls affected by domestic abuse.

“We want people to understand one thing – domestic abuse is not a woman’s problem,” she said. “It’s an everybody problem.”

For Deniz Ugur, deputy director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, violence by men against women is part of a cultural problem that needs to be tackled.

“Women and girls face the constant threat of male violence, whether that’s in public spaces, the workplace, online or in our own homes, where the majority of this violence takes place,” he said.

“If we are to change this then it is critical that the government prioritises and invests in quality relationships and sex education based on consent and equality, and public campaigns to shift the attitudes that justify and normalise this violence and abuse. Women and girls deserve better.”

Conservative MP Caroline Nokes has criticised the government for refusing to commit to a new educational strategy for boys which would aim to tackle sexual harassment and gender-based violence.

The chair of the cross-party women’s and equalities committee said: “Education is a powerful and necessary tool in preventing violence against women and girls. Relationships, sex and health education that continues past secondary school and that engages proactively with boys and young men is crucial to combat harmful attitudes.”

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The government is committed to raising the bar in how these vile crimes are dealt with.

“We have gone further than ever before in protecting domestic abuse victims, classifying it as a national threat. Our innovative Young Women and Girls Fund also delivers specialist interventions to vulnerable young women and girls at risk of exploitation or violence.

“We will continue to work closely with the police and courts to bring more criminals to justice, and have set clear expectations for how the police should respond.”

[woso-dreamzzz]

just want to point out that the officer charged w posting revenge p*rn worked for somerset and avon police, a different county service, so they might be different people w the same name

Thanks for letting me know!

Yeah, if it's from Somerset and Avon then it probably won't be the guy from the Metro coppers. County services don't really overlap officers a lot so it's likely a different guy.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

After unlawfully censoring U.K. pastor and street preacher Dia Moodley, Bristol police have conceded that their actions were “disproportionate,” and will pay a settlement to the pastor.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International and the Free Speech Union backed Moodley’s challenge to the chief constable of Avon and Somerset Police for religious discrimination, as well as infringement of his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; freedom of...

[zee-man-chatter]

Senior police officer and former Black policing body chair is sacked after 'punching two women off-duty during a discussion about Meghan Markle and race'

A police inspector for Avon and Somerset Police who formerly chaired the National Black Police Association has been dismissed without notice after he assaulted two women while off-duty during a conversation about Meghan Markle.

Bristol-based Tola Munro 'completely lost control' when he dragged a woman to the ground before punching her in the face and then hitting a second female, a misconduct panel was told.

The incident began when the father-of-four was off-duty and was the result of a discussion about the Duke of Sussex and race. 

Munro denied the allegations against him and claimed he was acting in self-defence. 

Legally Qualified Chair Jane Jones, who is independent of policing, ruled Inspector Tola Munro's actions amounted to gross misconduct and labelled it a 'terrible irony' and said he had previously helped tackle violence against women and girls. 

Bristol-based Tola Munro dragged a woman to the ground before punching her in the face and then hitting a second female, a misconduct panel was told

The incident began when he was off-duty and was the result of a discussion about the Duke of Sussex and race

As well as being dismissed, Munro will be added to the barred list to preventing him serving again.

The panel heard that as the conversation became 'heated and personal' Munro should have 'risen above provocation' and that he caused 'distress' to both women, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Ms Jones said the violence was 'deliberate' and had caused 'significant reputational harm to the force.' 

Gwent Police carried out a criminal investigation into the incident, which happened in May 2023, culminating in the case being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, which deemed there was insufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of a successful prosecution.

Munro, who was serving as a neighbourhood officer in south Bristol at the time, was suspended while the criminal and misconduct investigations were carried out.

The panel ruled Inspector Munro had breached two standards of professional behaviour, specifically in relation to discreditable conduct, as well as authority, respect and courtesy.

Ms Jones said Munro's violence was 'deliberate' and had caused 'significant reputational harm to the force'

Superintendent Mark Edgington: 'The burden of proof required for a criminal prosecution and misconduct to be proven is different. 

'The panel reached its decision that Inspector Munro assaulted the two women on the balance of probabilities having heard the evidence presented to them. A criminal conviction requires allegations to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt, and the difference between those levels is significant.

'Ultimately, there is no place in policing for an officer who is found to have assaulted any member of the public. Whether on or off-duty, officers and staff must adhere to the standards expected of anyone serving in policing and Inspector Munro failed to do this.

'As an organization we have carried out a huge amount of work in recent years around the topic of violence against women and girls. Inspector Munro's actions have undermined those efforts and will likely damage public confidence in policing.

'We hope the public can see from the actions we have taken that these allegations have been taken seriously from the moment we learned of them.

'The public's trust in policing is dependent on rooting out any officer, no matter their rank or experience, who should not be serving the public. We hope the robust action taken in this case highlights that commitment.'

[beardedmrbean]

A man has been arrested in Bristol after human remains were discovered in two suitcases by Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Police launched a manhunt after making the horrifying discovery late on Wednesday evening. They are no longer looking for anyone else after armed police detained a 34-year-old in the early hours of Saturday morning at Temple Meads railway station in Bristol.

Elsewhere, forensic officers were photographed at a crime scene at a property in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, and at the site of some nearby bins, on Saturday. Officers said on Friday that they had discovered more human remains at the West London property.

It is believed that the remains in London are connected to those found in Bristol and that they are both of two male victims.

Avon and Somerset Police received a report of a man with a suitcase acting suspiciously on the Clifton Suspension Bridge just before midnight on Wednesday.

When officers arrived, the man had left with the two cases soon found.

The investigation was taken over by the Metropolitan Police after human remains were found at the property in Shepherd’s Bush.

On Saturday, the force’s deputy assistant commissioner Andy Valentine thanked the public for their support, saying the arrest was “a significant development in our investigation”.

Witnesses who saw the suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge described them as “tatty”, with one woman saying she saw one of the pieces of luggage “leaking blood”.

A suspected serial killer has allegedly confessed to murdering 42 women, including his wife, and dumping their bodies at a rubbish tip in the Kenyan capital.

The discovery of nine mutilated bodies at the disused quarry, in the Mukuru slum in Nairobi late last week, horrified the country and triggered a huge manhunt.

The 33-year-old prime suspect was arrested in the early hours of Monday at a bar where he had been watching the Euro 2024 final.

Police said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha had confessed to more than three dozen killings with his wife being his first victim.

Mohamed Amin, head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, said: “We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life.”

“The suspect confessed to have lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site.”

Another passer-by described how he had joked with a woman who was helping to move the suitcases that they could have bodies inside.

Giles Malone, 61, said he recalled the woman saying: “These are the heaviest suitcases that I have ever lifted I suppose there could be a body in there.”

He described the suitcases as “real tatty, really beaten up and [they] had straps around them like in a criss-cross.”

He added: “They were maxxed out, it was like they were bursting at the seams.”

Another man, 36, was arrested in Greenwich, south London in connection with the discovery on Friday but they have since been released without charge.

The Metropolitan Police are leading the investigation and working with officers at Avon and Somerset Police.

[sunsetkerr]

Hi there! I got a question:

I've seen a few things with the whole Sam situation and, honestly, I've got no idea what's happening. Would you mind explaining it, because I feel so stupid not knowing anything about what's happening💀

hi love! I am probably not the best person to explain this whole thing, but I will try to the best of my ability! I've broken this up into sections so my brain can compute it all lol.

this is a long post.. so strap in!

(I'm also going to reference this shit so people don't get upset with me)

The Incident / The Accusing / PC Lovell

So January 30th 2023, there is a dispute around a taxi-fare in Twickenham, South-West London. Sam was accused by the attending officer of "[using] insulting, threatening or abusive words that caused alarm or distress to a Metropolitan Police officer who was responding to a complaint involving a taxi fare".

There is zero mention of the case until yesterday (5th of March, in Australia).

We are now aware that the attending officer who accused Sam has been identified in court as, PC Lovell.

(Now, @moonystoes posted a lot of information here, if you would like to read it- and that is where I am getting this next lot of information from.)

There is an officer named PC Lovell, who we will now refer to with the number 1 for clarity, that has been accused, and I believe convicted, of some horrid things in Avon and Somerset (2 hours and 33 minutes away from where the alleged incident occurred).

These incidents include, posting revenge p*rn of three different women, sending unsolicited nude photos to a number of his female colleagues and acted in a described 'predatory' manner towards a cadet who was a minor at the time. He has been given both verbal and written warnings in 2006 and 2016 for his actions.

However, an anonymous person came forwards and communicated with @moonystoes that there is a PC Lovell (2) that works in Surrey (20 minutes away from where the alleged incident occurred), and another PC Lovell (3) that lives in Reading (50 minutes away from where the alleged incident occurred).

!There is no knowledge on if these officers are the same person!

So please, do not jump to conclusions as people do not want to be dismissing the claims on an innocent man.

There is lots of speculation that if it is PC Lovell (1) from Avon & Somerset, that the claims and allegations against Sam could hold little validity, due to his past.

But please remember, we are not aware of the full story and these allegations against Sam are serious and not to be taken lightly. Racism is a serious issue and is not okay. Please take caution when approaching this issue and be kind.

The Case / The Law / Potential Imprisonment / Comments from Football Australia and her Coaches

Sam's teams original defence has been reported as this: "she didn’t intend to cause alarm, harassment or distress to the officer and that her behaviour did not amount to it and it was not racially aggravated".

If Sam is convicted, these are the laws that will be applied: "Under Section 4 or 4a of the Public Order Act 1986, under which she was charged, the racially or religiously aggravated version of an offence can attract a maximum penalty on summary conviction, which is six months imprisonment or an unlimited fine or both."

Football Australia and Matildas Coach, Tony Gustavsson have only just found out about the news at the same time that the public did. There has been talk about stripping Sam of her captaincy, but this has not come from Football Australia themselves, they have denied it.

Football Australia CEO, James Johnson, has communicated that he will not be asking Sam to stand down from her captaincy. This has been decided due to the fact that she (most likely) will not be playing for the remainder of the year as she recovers from her ACL injury.

Johnson also said this about Sam: "Sam has rights as an individual. She has pleaded not guilty. I think we need to remember that and we need to respect that.” // “I haven’t spoken to Sam other than a text message just to check in on her well being at the moment because she is an employee of ours and also a player.”

Tony Gustavsson had this to say: “I can’t comment on the offence because there’s a legal matter at this point. The only thing I can comment is my experience and interaction with Sam as a person and as a footballer, and I have only positive experience with that,”.

The Defence / Throwing the Case out

Moving onto the case itself, Sam's team is now fighting (as of the 6th of March, Australia) to get the case thrown out before it reaches the court date, which is February 3rd 2025.

On April 26th, Sam's defence team is going back into court and fighting to get the case thrown out after it took over 12 months to even lay the charge on Sam.

"Court documents released on Tuesday show their plan is to argue an abuse of process by Crown prosecutors after it took almost 12 months to lay the charge."

So until April, we most likely will not know anymore information. Again, please remain kind. These are not allegations to be taken lightly.

Hopefully this answered any questions that you had! The articles that I got this information from are linked below for your convenience.

Much love, celeste

Articles:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/sam-kerr-criminal-charge-no-comment-from-fa-chelsea/103550968

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/kerr-s-legal-team-seeks-to-have-charge-dismissed-over-abuse-of-process-20240306-p5fa5b.html

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/samantha-kerr-to-face-trial-in-england-accused-of-harassing-police-officer-report-20240305-p5f9up.html

https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/plan-to-turn-sam-kerrs-racism-saga-on-its-head-emerges/news-story/645078ee226373d13a19e84284d5958e

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/matildas/sam-has-rights-football-aus-responds-as-matildas-coach-blindsided-by-kerr-allegation/news-story/6b1bc996c897856bb0ebd8e8f1f90038

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/samantha-kerr-to-face-trial-in-england-accused-of-harassing-police-officer-report-20240305-p5f9up.html

[samkerrworshipper]

just wanted point out to the anon that said pc lovell was dismissed - i think it might be a different person as the dismissed pc lovell worked for somerset and avon police, not london

might be the same guy but thought i’d put that out there 🤷‍♀️

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[lollytruecrimeworld]

Melanie Hall Murder

A Cold Case from Bath UK

This is a case that my team are currently reviewing in hope that we can put out a documentary about it. This murder seems to have been committed in 1996 but the victim’s remains were not found until 2009. This murder has to date never been solved.

This is one case that we as a team believe can be solved and in fact, should have been solved a long time ago.

Melanie Hall was born on August 20th 1970 and disappeared on June 9th 1996 after a night out at the Cadillacs Nightclub in Bath, UK.

Melanie had graduated from from the University of Bath in in 1995 having achieved a degree in nursing. She went on to get work as a clerical officer at The Royal university Hospital in Bath.

On 8th June 1996 Melanie had made arrangements for an evening out with her boyfriend Philip Karlbaum and then spent the night at his home afterwards. Her mother dropped her off at Philip’s home amd it was from there that they set out with another couple to Cadillacs nightclub in Bath city centre.

During the course of the evening Philip apparently saw 25-year-old Melanie dancing with another male and as a result an argument ensued. He left the club upset and headed home. She was last seen sitting on a barstool at 1.10 am in the early hours of June 9th 1996.

There was an unconfirmed sighting of a woman arguing with a man between 1.45am and 2am on Old Orchard just around the corner from the nightclub. Whilst police say that they cannot rule out that the woman was Melanie but at the same time there is no way to confirm that it was her.

There is also a report of a male seen talking to a woman matching Melanie Hall’s inside the nightclub. He was described as white, around 27 years old, 5ft 10ins tall, medium build, dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, bushy eyebrows and clean shaven.

His clothes were described as black trousers, black shoes with a brown silk shirt. The person who gave the description could not be certain but it seems quite possible the male had a gold hooped earring in his right ear and a flashy gold watch on his wrist.

Despite a massive police operation Melanie was not found and she was declared legally dead by a court on November 17th 2004 but without her body being found

Now before we go any further it is right to day that it has been suggested that a serial sex offender who preyed on women in the Bath area between 1991 and 2000 could potentially have been responsible for Melanie’s disappearance and death but thus far this has never been confirmed.

Officers from Avon & Somerset Police have said that they cannot rule out that the ‘Batman rapist’ was responsible for Melanie’s murder. The rapist is known to have attempted to carjack a woman at knifepoint in the same area of Bath as the club where Melanie was last seen just a few hours before Melanie is believed to have been abducted.

The victim of the attempted carjacking was left wouded when she fought her attacker but managed to escape.

Coming back to Melanie Hall’s murder the night of her disappearance is a night that may stick in some people’s memory as it was the evening of the opening game of the Euro 96 football championships, England played Switzerland and drew 1–1.

Melanie was wearing quite distinctive clothes and shoes on the night that she disappeared namely a pale blue silk dress with a round neck, black suede mule shoes with straps across the front and an open toe, size 5 or 6, a cream single-breasted, long-sleeved jacket and a black satchel-type handbag. Her jewellery consisted of a Next watch with expanding bracelet and silver drop earrings.

She was also known to have had her Midland bank cheque book and cheque guarantee card with were in her handbag and have never been recovered.

Maybe you were in the club that night? Did you speak to or recognise Malanie Hall? She was a very pretty young lady with very distinctive blonde hair. Were you a can driver in Bath in 1996? Did you take Melanie and a male somewhere in the early hours of June 9th 1996?

Were you offered the items of jewellery to purchase? or even the high quality handbag?

If you know anything at all that could lead police to solve this heinous crime, please contact the police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

If you are willing to discuss the case were a friend or colleague of Melanie and would be willing to speak to one of my research team then please get in touch.

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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three children were found dead at a property in Bristol.

Police were called to Blaise Walk in the Sea Mills area of the city at 12.40am on Sunday after receiving a "concern for welfare call".

Three "young children" found inside the property were pronounced dead a short time later, Avon and Somerset Police said.

The woman, 42, is being held in police custody in hospital.

It is believed to be an "isolated incident" with "no further risk to the wider community", Chief Inspector Vicks Hayward-Melen said.

Detectives from the Major Crime Investigation Team are investigating.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had been alerted because there was "prior police contact earlier this month".

A spokesperson said: "We have requested a paper referral with further information about the prior contact and once received, we will assess it to determine whether further action is required from us."

Mark Shelford, the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner, said there were "questions to be asked about how such an appalling event has occurred and what could have been done to prevent it".

Marvin Rees, the directly elected mayor of Bristol, said: "My thoughts are with all who knew these three young children. We will be working with schools, the community, and Avon and Somerset Police to support people."

Officers will remain at the scene to "provide reassurance to anyone who has any questions or concerns", Ms Hayward-Melen said.

"Over the coming days, residents can expect to see an increased police presence and we thank them for their cooperation during this time."

She added: "This is an incredibly tragic and heartbreaking incident in which three children have sadly died.

"My sincere condolences go to the children's loved ones and we will be ensuring they are offered support through our family liaison unit."

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