The Sun newspaper has offered £50,000 to double the current reward to catch the killer of Melanie Hall who was murdered after going missing in Bath 20 years ago.
Melanie’s parents put up their £50,000 life-savings in June as a reward, and The Sun has now matched it – making the £100,000 reward one of the biggest ever in British criminal justice history.
At the start of June this year, Avon and Somerset Police launched a new appeal and said that newly available DNA techniques have put them ‘a step closer’ to finding the killer of Melanie Hall, after she went missing in Bath in 1996.
Melanie, who was a clerical worker at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, was last seen at 1.10am sitting on a stool at the edge of the dancefloor in Cadillacs nightclub (now ClubXL) in Walcot Street, Bath, following a night out with friends.
This was the last confirmed sighting of Melanie alive. Her remains were found in vegetation next to the junction 14 northbound slipway of the M5 (Thornbury) by a workman on 5th October 2009.
The Sun’s offer of a total reward of £50,000 is for information provided to police which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for Melanie Hall’s murder, and is subject to terms and conditions, which are available here.
