More women will die if domestic abusers leave prison early, victim’s parents warn

Peter Hall said there will be ‘more violence and more death’ if domestic abusers are included in the early prison release scheme. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer

More women will die if ministers include domestic abusers in the early prison release scheme, the parents of a woman murdered by her partner shortly after he was freed have warned.

Michaela Hall, a 49-year-old charity worker, was killed in her home in Cornwall, by Lee Kendall in 2021 two weeks after he was released from prison, where he had been serving a sentence for assaulting her.