Agony continues for family of Sheffield prostitute – stabbed to death on Bonfire Night

Michaela Hague, aged 25, was working as a prostitute in the city when she was killed on November 5, 2001.

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As fireworks lit up the sky across Sheffield and families enjoyed bonfire parties, mum-of-one Michaela was being stabbed 19 times in her back and neck.

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She was found slumped on the ground on a isolated car park off Spitalfields, on the outskirts of Sheffield city centre between Kelham Island and Wicker.

Michaela, who sold her body to fund a heroin addiction, was still breathing when emergency services arrived at the scene and was able to whisper a brief description of her attacker to a police officer.

Michaela, from Pitsmoor, told PC Richard Twigg that her attacker was clean shaven and wore a wedding ring.

She also told the officer that she had been picked up by him from Bower Street, just off Corporation Street.

An old-style blue Ford Sierra was seen driving away from where her body was found, which triggered a nationwide search for the vehicle but it was never located.

During the inquest into Michaela’s unsolved death, coroner Chris Dorries said he hoped advances in technology over the years would eventually help police snare the killer.

South Yorkshire Police said its major incident review team is ‘continually reviewing’ the death’ and any new lines of enquiry when new information or intelligence is received by the force.

Anyone with information should call South Yorkshire Police on 101.

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