IT is closing in on three decades since the lifeless body of Melissa Hunt was found in a dam at an abandoned Hunter colliery - nearly 30 years that the young mother's murderer has been allowed to be free; at liberty to go about their business as long as they could live with the heinous acts they committed.
Melissa was 22 years old when she died. She suffered several serious blows to the head, leaving her with 11 fractures to her skull. And when her killer was finished, they filled her clothes with sandstone rocks and put her into the water. Her daughter Jayde Hallett was only five years old at the time.
