A vulnerable woman was killed by her violent partner on the night officers knocked at her door. Now her family wants answers
On the night Michaela Hall was murdered, police knocked on her door. They had received a report that the mother of two and former Virgin Airways flight attendant was being strangled by her partner, a known abuser recently released from prison.
Michaela, 49, was speaking to a friend on the phone when she was attacked. “I heard her say, ‘Don’t come near me, Lee,’ and she just started screaming,” the friend, living abroad, told the Crimestoppers charity. “It was horrific, pure fear, like something out of a movie.”
