Police still hunting killer of Sheffield woman stabbed multiple times
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Michaela Hague had watched fireworks with her partner and five-year-old son one bonfire night almost 20 years ago and then stepped out into the dark streets of Sheffield to work as a prostitute.
Within hours she was dead - stabbed 19 times and dumped in a carpark in Spitalfields on November 5, 2001.
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Hide AdDespite gasping a description of her attacker to police when they arrived at the scene, her killer has never been found.
She was taken to Northern General where she died three hours later, although her injuries were described as non-life-threatening in her medical records.
The officer who found her, one PC Twigg, who wrote the description on his hand, later commented: “I could see she was in a bad way, but she was able to give me a very brief description of the man and his car.”
Michaela, who was first discovered by a friend, described her murderer as clean shaven, white, and wearing a wedding ring and glasses. Michaela also said the man was around 38 and 6ft in height.
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Hide AdShe had last been seen climbing into a blue Ford Sierra in the Bower Street area of the city - Sheffield’s former red light district.
Detectives who investigated her death had to identify her regular customers and speak to other sex workers and men known to visit Sheffield’s red light district at the time.
In a bid to encourage men who knew her to come forward to eliminate themselves from the investigation, investigators threatened to track them down and visit them at home unless they came forward.
They also liaised with police forces from across the country looking for possible links with other prostitute murders.
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During the inquest into her death, Sheffield Coroner Chris Dorries said he hoped advances in technology would eventually help police catch the killer.
Contact police with information on 101.