Parents' plea over 'motorway bones' woman

Thu Oct 8 2009 11:51:46

The parents of a woman whose remains were found at the side of a motorway, 13 years since she vanished, have described their "untold anguish".

Bones belonging to 25-year-old Melanie Hall, whose disappearance was one of the most high profile cases of the 1990s, were found in a bag by a workman clearing part of an M5 slip road, north of Bristol, on Monday.

The hospital worker was last seen in Cadillacs nightclub, in Walcot Street, Bath on June 9, 1996.

Steve Hall, 65, an ex-chairman of Bath City from Bradford-on-Avon, said his "vibrant" daughter was now a "bag of bones". He added: "We desperately need to know what happened to Melanie."

His wife Pat said: "I feel very angry her body has been dumped on the road like a sack of garbage."

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