‘They signed her death warrant’: how probation service failings left a violent man free to kill

The father of Michaela Hall, the charity worker killed by her partner after he was wrongly assessed as only ‘medium risk’ says lessons must be learned

A serial violent offender who previously tried to strangle his partner was free to murder her after being wrongly assessed as “medium risk” by the ­probation service.

When Lee Kendall killed ­charity worker Michaela Hall on 31 May 2021, police had received 34 pieces of ­intelligence about his domestic abuse against her and he had almost 50 ­convictions, relating to 100 offences.