Overview
- Avon and Somerset Police have begun a root‑and‑branch review, digitising 90 crates of case files for modern analysis.
- Detectives issued a new colour e‑fit of a tanned man seen speaking to a woman matching Melanie Hall’s description shortly before she left a Bath nightclub in 1996.
- The pool of persons of interest has been cut from under 100 to fewer than 20, and officers plan to re‑interview alibi witnesses.
- A partial DNA profile recovered from the blue nylon rope and bin bags used to bind and conceal her remains is under fresh forensic scrutiny.
- Melanie Hall’s family appealed for anyone with knowledge to come forward as investigators trial AI‑assisted tools to review CCTV and other material.