25/11/2013

Man Arrested Over M5 Body

A 44-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of a body near the M5 in 2009.

Officers investigating the murder of 25-year-old Melanie Hall arrested the man at his Bath home last week, police have reported.

A search was also carried out at a property in Roundhill Park, Whiteway – understood to be a property previously occupied by the suspect.

Miss Hall, a hospital clerical worker from Bath, was last seen leaving a nightclub in 1996.

Her body was then found on a motorway slip road on 05 October 2009.

The police confirmed the arrest and that the suspect had been released on bail until 19 December.

(MH/CD)

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