Killer Simon Hall: Secret Murder Confession(s) – Part 19i ©️

Joan Albert’s Killer.
Photograph of Simon Hall taken whilst *at large* and wanted by Suffolk police for a sexually motivated murder

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Most of the media stories which reported on killer Simon Hall’s confession to his murder of Joan Albert were extremely poor, speculative, misleading and in many instances completely false.

For example in one media article, under the header Killer Simon Hall admits guilt – but he didn’t confess to authorities first, excerpts read;

Killer Simon Hall only confessed to prison authorities after first admitting his crime to someone else – believing his dark secret would never come out.

The details emerged after The Star yesterday revealed the 35-year-old had confessed to the December 2001 murder in Capel St Mary.

The Star understands Hall had secretly confessed killing Mrs Albert to a third party.

But that information came to the attention of the prison authorities and Hall then formally admitted committing the murder.
By Lauren Everitt for the Evening Star/East Anglian Daily Times article(s) headed Killer Simon Hall admits guilt – but he didn’t confess to authorities first dated the 9th of August 2013

It is not known why Lauren Everitt wrote and published that Simon Hall had secretly confessed.

Simon Hall’s confession to his murder of Joan Albert was never made in secret to anyone – at least not whilst he was in prison.

Archive photograph of Joan Albert’s home in Capel St Mary, Suffolk

But evidence does suggest Simon Hall’s dark secret was known by his immediate family members from the very beginning.

Shaun Hall, Simon Hall’s older brother, stated on a public Internet forum in early 2013;

Simon had every chance to confess to his actions on the night of Joan’s death, however he decided to keep this quiet. Saying that anyone else should go to the police is ridiculous as they wouldn’t want Simon to get in to further trouble
Shaun Hall

Lynne Hall’s Self Serving Lies

Lynne Hall told numerous self serving lies from the very beginning of the police investigation into Joan Albert’s murder, and over the years that followed Simon Hall and the Hall families (and Stephanie Bon and others) fraudulent PR campaign.

It was therefore no surprise when Lynne Hall chose to tell a reporter more self serving lies once the innocence fraud was exposed.

On the 8th of August 2013, under the header Simon Hall’s mother’s shock at his murder confession. Excerpts read;

Mrs Hall said: “I’m absolutely shocked because I know he is innocent and I still believe he is

“But it’s the system. If he had pleaded guilty in the beginning, he would be home now

“I know he has been really low and in hospital recently. He’s given up

Hall’s parents Lynne and Phil Hall and his brother Shaun supported him through numerous appeals which were unsuccessful.

Mrs Hall added: “I believe he feels he can’t take any more after all the fight he has put up and how brave he has been

“If that’s his decision, that’s his decision but I will never believe that
Excerpts by Lauren Everitt for the Evening Star/East Anglian Daily Times article headed Simon Hall’s mother’s shock at his murder confession dated the 8th of August 2013

Lynne Hall’s self serving statements of I’m absolutely shocked because I know he is innocent and I still believe he is and I believe he feels he can’t take any more after all the fight he has put up and how brave he has been were only ever made by Lynne Hall in an attempt to save face.

The Evidence Tells A Different Story

Killer Simon Hall received a 13 year life sentence tariff for his murder of Joan Albert (minus time spent on remand) and he had also been moved to a D-Category prison at the end of 2012, earlier than many life sentenced prisoners, in part because the C-Category prison he was moving from was due to close.

Therefore Lynne Hall’s statement “But it’s the system. If he had pleaded guilty in the beginning, he would be home now” was, and is, nonsense.

13 years for a sexually motivated murder was a low tariff and had Simon Hall pleaded guilty for his murderous crime(s) it’s likely his life sentence tariff would have been considerably higher than the tariff he ended up being ordered to serve.

Simon Hall was in hospital in February 2013 following a suicide attempt because his factual guilt to his murder was being exposed – in the main by his older brother Shaun Hall.

As already referred to in Part 11a here Shaun Hall wrote to his brother Simon after he learned he had been in hospital and stated;

I have just found out about the events in February which led to you being in Ipswich hospital

I really want to put all the past behind us and move forward for your sake

Sometimes I only see the Simon that everyone else believes is you but I know that is not the real you. You are a the (sic) selfish person deep down, you have been a victim from day one where you are and that your situation led you to act in a way out of character

It’s a disgusting situation and should never have happened and I hold my hand up as I have before and admit I am to blame for our situation but I’m sure in the right light both of us would hold our hands up and admit we both have let anger or hurt motivate our actions
Excerpts from Shaun Hall’s letter to his brother Simon Hall dated the 7th June 2013

Shaun Hall has never confirmed whether or not his statements to his brother Simon about putting the past behind us and, ‘I hold my hand up as I have before and admit I am to blame for our situation’, were anything to do with the allegations of abuse Simon Hall made to Suffolk police against Shaun just prior to Simon admitting to his murder of Joan Albert. (Read more in Part 13 here)

Link to Part 19j here

Killer Simon Hall: Did Lynne Hall Not Approve Of Stephanie Bon? – Part 19f©️

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Following the exposure of Simon Hall’s factual guilt to his murder of Joan Albert and less than a month before his suicide, Simon stated;

I always took girls home for Lynne’s approval and it was always the same.

I don’t know why I did that.

I remember she used to call one girl, who I got on really well with “Horseface”.

Yeah, imagine that. “Oh you can do better than that flat-chested horse face girl”.

I liked her but Lynne’s disapproval or anyone’s disapproval in some cases got in the way of what I wanted.

I’ve always done that. That links to my cowardice and lack of back-bone, but I’ll come back to that.
Simon Hall – 28th January 2014

In another letter Simon Hall stated;

It’s hard to swallow that my family, who were fighting for credits when I was “innocent” are nowhere now that the truth is out.

A fairweather family?

I know Shaun f**ked me up.

I know he knows it too but I bet he plays that down to whoever he has told.

Remember Lynne said it was 6 of one, half a dozen of other?

I think Shaun’s abuse delayed my physical maturity, as well as my emotional growth.

This book I’ve got is really laying it all out for me. Bernie and David. The Hall’s. There’s quotes from conversations with convicted prisoners that strikes as similar.

One guy hates his mother so much but could never hit her because of the hold she had, so he transferred it to others.

That is me.

It explains something else doesn’t it?
Simon Hall – 9th February 2014

Stephane Bon told the police that she first met Simon Hall around August or September 2001. But Simon did not start working at State Chemicals in Colchester until the 24th of September 2001. Stephanie also told the police when she first met Simon that she was seeing a colleague from her office but that she and Simon would flirt with each other too.

Also according to Stephanie Bon’s evidence, Simon often told Stephanie how he was allegedly having problems with his relationship which at the time was to a girl called Zoe.

Stephanie Bon also claimed that Simon and Zoe often had arguments over the phone, if Simon was late or had not called her. Although it’s not clear from Stephanie Bon’s evidence on what dates and times exactly she was referring to.

But Stephanie Bon’s evidence suggests the reason Simon often had arguments over the phone and was late or had not called Zoe was because Simon was with Stephanie Bon at the time.

Did Stephanie Bon Loan Simon Hall Money

On the 9th of October 2001 Simon Hall contacted his car insurance company to change cover from his Volkswagen Golf insurance to a Ford Fiesta 1.1 popular plus car.

According to the evidence, this change would have reduced Simon’s policy cost and the difference being approximately sixty pounds (£60) in his favour but the refund would take up to six weeks to process and that in the interim he would still be required to continue his direct debit payments.

The evidence of the car insurance person, was that Simon had asked for the £60 refund to be paid to him immediately, suggesting Simon was either low on money or had no money by the 9th of October 2001.

The evidence is that Simon Hall contacted the insurance company the following day and instructed that the policy revert back to the Volkswagon Golf.

Again Stephanie Bon’s evidence to the police was;

Around October 2001, Simon and I became an item.

He used to stay at my house in Colchester, regularly, as it was so much more convenient for work.

Over time he left various items at my house, so he (sic) changes of clothes and wash things.

I would describe our relationship as generally good, we did argue occasionally, but nothing significant
Excerpts from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

Stephanie Bon made no mention to the police of a Ford Fiesta 1.1 popular plus car but she did mention Simon buying a black Audi. Stephanie Bon stated;

Both working for the company we were insured to drive the company cars.

I had not passed my test and was having difficulties with my instructor, so Simon offered to give me some driving lessons.

I remember he originally had a Volkswagen Golf, which he sold.

He then got a company white Saxo car, which we both drove.

Simon used to encourage me to drive and we would go out at lunch times, or after work when I would drive him back to my house.

I also remember Simon buying a black Audi, although I think he had problems with thar car too, and didn’t drive it much
Excerpts from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

However Stephanie Bon ommitted to tell the police that she had been with Simon Hall on the Wednesday the 12th of December and that the pair of them had driven to Haverhill in Suffolk to view and pay for Simon’s new black Audi car.

The police asked Simon during his interview (following his arrest) how much he had paid for the car and Simon had stated £450.

After Simon Hall was charged by Suffolk police for his murder of Joan Albert, he did go on to clarify via his proof of evidence statement, that the man he had sold his Volkswagen Golf car to had already given Simon a cash payment which in turn he had used to pay for the Audi car on the Wednesday.

However it is not known if Stephanie Bon had also lent Simon some money around this time to go towards buying the car on the Wednesday (12th). Because Simon told the police he was not due to receive his wages until the 15th.

Why Didn’t Simon Hall Telephone Stephanie Bon Until Monday?

Again Stephanie Bon’s evidence was;

On Saturday the 15th of December 2001 I remember being at home in Colchester with my brother and old flat mate, Lionel *****, who lived at the house for a year.

We remained in all night and I clearly remember this time, as I was meant to be going to a family meal the following day.

On the Sunday Simon was off for a meal with relatives and asked me to go along as well.

I instantly agreed, looking forward to meeting the rest of the family but, unfortunately Simon did not get around to asking his mum until it was too late.

By the time Simon asked Lynne, there was not enough room at the table and I was unable to go along

This had annoyed me and I remember questioning whether the relationship was worth continuing with.

I believe Simon said he was going out with some friends on the Saturday night, although I am not sure
Excerpts from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

It is still not known if the reason Simon Hall went back to Lynne and Phil’s home for an hour on the Saturday to shower and change his clothes, was because Simon and Stephanie Bon had argued on the Friday and Stephanie had possibly booted Simon, as well as Simon’s belongings, out of her Colchester home.

Below are extracts from one of Simon Hall’s police interviews where the police were asking Simon who he had contacted on Saturday the 15th of December (Read more in Part 9a here);

Dc 1023 Alright, yeah. Alright. Was there anybody else you contacted that evening at all? You talked about previously er text facilities and things like that
Simon Yeah. I may have contacted Scott at the Woolpack, that may have led me to want to go there
Dc 1023 Right
Simon Would have been a karaoke because they are good. Phew! Top of my head I can’t think about. No, I’d spoken to Stephanie as well
Dc 1023 Hmm mm
Simon Or Oli, Olivier (inaudible)
Dc 1023 Yeah
Dc 1023 Was that Stephanie Bon?
Simon Erm
Simon Yeah
Dc 1023 And that will, and that. And you would have used your mobile phone again on that night?
Simon Yeah
Dc 1023 It’s obvious we’re talking about the same night. I apologise for that. So you would have rung them on their mobile or landline?
Simon Their mobile
Dc 1023 Their mobile
Simon I don’t know whether I did or I didn’t so

Notice how Simon Hall initially told the police he had spoken to Stephanie Bon, then stated or Oli, Olivier (Stephanie Bon’s brother) but then added I don’t know whether I did or I didn’t so.

Phone call logs show Simon Hall did not telephone Stephanie Bon at all on the Saturday or Sunday (Read more in Part 9a here) which further points to the pair of them possibly having had an argument on the Friday the 14th.

And the fact Simon Hall had indicated to the police he was a single man by the Saturday adds yet further weight to this.

When Exactly In December Were Simon Hall’s Clothes Predominantly At Snowcroft & Why?

Following Simon Hall’s murder of Joan Albert, his girlfriend Stephanie Bon stated to the police that she and Simon began to visit his parents quite regularly, taking over flowers and chocolates and checking up on his mum. Stephanie stated;

Simon was very close to his mum, and I think he was quite worried about how she would cope, as I believe she was on anti depressants prior to the murder.

He talked about the incident, but mainly about concern for his mum

We began to visit his parents quite regularly, taking over flowers and chocolates and checking up on his mum.

Simon was quite emotional person (sic) and seemed upset by the incident, which I would expect him to be

I didn’t notice any dramatic change in Simon after the murder.

He was obviously upset, shocked and concerned for his mother but this did not seem out of the ordinary.
Excerpts from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

Stephanie Bon’s evidence was that following their redundancies (Simon Hall was made redundant on the 22nd January 2002) is when their relationship began to fizzle out.

It was claimed by judge Anne Rafferty, in her summing up to the jury, at the end of Simon Hall’s February 2003 trial, that Simon split his time between his adoptive parents Lynne and Phil’s home in Capel St Mary and the home of a friend, Stephanie Bonn (sic) but by December 2001 his clothes would be predominantly at Snowcroft rather than at her home.

Stephanie Bon also stated that Simon gradually collected all his belongings but she then went on to state following the break up of their relationship, was when Simon collected all his belongings.

It is not known on what date exactly Simon Hall and Stephanie Bon broke up.

And according to Simon Hall he was in a new relationship with a woman called Phoebe Grant by January 2002.

Therefore the break up Stephanie Bon gave evidence to the police about, could well have occurred the day before Simon Hall referred to himself as a single man – on Friday the 14th of December 2001.

Link to Part 19g here

Killer Simon Hall: More Questions For Stephanie Bon & Lynne & Phil Hall – Part 19d©️

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Following the break up of our relationship Simon did collect all his belongings.
Excerpt from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

Again, it is still not known on what date exactly Simon Hall collected all his belongings from Stephanie Bon’s home in Colchester, Essex.

Stephanie Bon Photo courtesy of DailyMail

Where Did Simon Hall Sleep On Friday 14th December 2001?

And it is still not known where Simon Hall slept on the night of Friday the 14th and where exactly Matt (Matthew) W picked Simon up from to go and collect his new (Audi) car, which Simon had been to view with his girlfriend Stephanie Bon the previous Wednesday the 12th December at a garage known as Haverhill Kar Khange.

Simon Hall stated;

Having seen the car on that day I had agreed to purchase it and collect it the following Saturday the 15th. I could not have collected it on the Wednesday as Stephanie does not drive and whoever took me over to pick up the car needed to be able to drive themselves back
Excerpts from pages 1 and 2 of Simon Hall’s Proof of evidence statement

Matt W confirmed he had picked Simon up on the morning of Saturday the 15th December, in order for them to collect Simon’s new car. Simon had already paid for the car on the Wednesday, when he viewed it with Stephanie but Matt W did not mention in his statement where exactly he picked Simon up from ie; Simon adoptive parents home in Capel St Mary or his girlfriend Stephanie Bon’s home in Colchester – or somewhere else.

Christmas Fairy Lights

Lynne Hall told Suffolk police that Joan Albert had bought her some Christmas fairy lights, although it’s not clear based on Lynne’s statement on what date exactly Lynne collected the Christmas lights or on what date Simon allegedly put them up in the bush outside Lynne’s kitchen window. Lynne Hall stated;

I remember that Joan bought me some Christmas fairy lights from the Co-op in Capel, she actually paid for them and told me that I had to collect them. I collected them and Simon put them up in the bush outside my kitchen window
Excerpt from Lynne Hall’s police witness statement dated the 25th of July 2002

Example of outdoor Christmas fairy lights

Two days after her adoptive sons murder of Joan Albert, referring to the Friday evening (14th of December) Lynne Hall stated to Suffolk police;

The last time I actually saw Joan was on Friday evening, the fourteenth of December. I waved to her at about 8.10am as I went to work to catch the bus. I always used to check that she was up and Rusty was in the window. I came home after work. I got the 5.40, number 93 bus, from the Buttermarket in Ipswich. That usually gets me into the village at between 6.15 and 6.20pm. I was already carrying shopping. My own and some that I had done for her. I also had Phil’s Christmas present. It was a device that turned a bath into a spa bath. I got off the bus and went into the Co-op and got a few items. I then went straight to Joan’s. I was feeling ill just starting to come down with a bug. I popped in intending to be quick, it was not usual for me to go in if I did not take Rusty out because he would get so excited. We talked about the Christmas lights that she had bought me from the Co-op because some of them were not working.

Joan actually phoned me not long after I got home, it takes me maybe 5 minutes to get back. All she actually wanted to know was if I Simon (sic), our son, had checked the lights.
Excerpt’s from Lynne Hall’s police witness statement dated Tuesday the 18th December 2001 (Read more excerpts in Part 4 here)

Although Lynne Hall mentioned the Christmas lights to the police along with Simon’s name, Lynne did not state she saw Simon on the Friday night or whether or not there were any plans to see Simon that night.

Lynne only mentioned seeing her husband Phil and an alleged colleague of Phil’s when she got back home from visiting Joan Albert. Lynne stated;

Phil was at home with a colleague and he left just after 6.50pm and I had not even taken my coat off.
Excerpt from Lynne Hall’s police witness statement dated Tuesday the 18th December 2001

Argument(s) Over Christmas Meal At Stoke Rochford

It is therefore not clear whether or not Simon and his then girlfriend Stephanie Bon (and Lynne Hall) had argued on the Friday about there allegedly not being enough room at the table at the pre arranged (For Sunday 16th December) Christmas family meal up in Lincolnshire.

Stoke Rochford Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire

It is also not known on what date exactly Stephanie Bon questioned whether the relationship was worth continuing with, as she had stated to the police.

And it is also not known if the real reason for Stephanie Bon to question whether or not her relationship with Simon Hall was worth continuing with was due to not being able to attend the family Christmas meal at Stoke Rochford, or if it was because of something else.

Unless Stephanie Bon had learned after all that there was enough room at the table because Shaun Hall and his girlfriend Leigh had pulled out at the last minute following an argument, due to their son having only recently been released from hospital.

Shaun Hall told police;

During the weekend of the 15th, 16th December 2001 I recall working overtime at my place of employment from about 8am – 1pm on Saturday 15th December 2001

I further recall having an argument with my girlfriend Leigh when I got home, in relation to a planned family visit to Lincolnshire the next day. Leigh and X were due to travel with my parents, Simon and I for a family reunion with my mothers side of the family

However X was ill and Leigh was refusing to let him travel as a result of this

I was upset about this, as my mothers parents had not seen X before
Excerpts from Shaun Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

And Leigh, Shaun Hall’s then girlfriend, told the police;

Further to my previous statement I wish to add that on Saturday the 15th of December 2001, I believe I remained at my parents address of (redacted) with my young son X who had been quite ill and only released from hospital on the previous Thursday.

On 16th December 2001, we were all meant to be attending a large family meal but, due to X being ill, Shaun and I remained at home
Excerpt’s from Leigh Marshall’s police witness statement dated 27th August 2002

But then that still wouldn’t explain why Stephanie Bon would have questioned whether the relationship was worth continuing with because according to Stephanie Bon’s police statement, it was Lynne Hall who lied about there not being enough room at the table, not Simon, unless Simon had never asked Lynne about bringing his girlfriend along.

Again Stephanie Bon’s evidence was;

On Saturday the 15th of December 2001 I remember being at home in Colchester with my brother and old flat mate, Lionel *****, who lived at the house for a year.

We remained in all night and I clearly remember this time, as I was meant to be going to a family meal the following day. On the Sunday Simon was off for a meal with relatives and asked me to go along as well. I instantly agreed, looking forward to meeting the rest of the family but, unfortunately Simon did not get around to asking his mum until it was too late. By the time Simon asked Lynne, there was not enough room at the table and I was unable to go along

This had annoyed me and I remember questioning whether the relationship was worth continuing with. I believe Simon said he was going out with some friends on the Saturday night, although I am not sure
Excerpts from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

Link to Part 19e here

Killer Simon Hall: Shaun Hall: “It’s Family And It’s Personal”- Part 11©️

It is not known if Simon Hall confessed to his older brother Shaun Hall about his murder of Joan Albert back in 2001/02, or at any time thereafter, but Shaun Hall’s behaviour was suspicious and many of the public statements he chose to make were extremely telling.

The most telling of all Shaun Hall’s statements were those he made to his brother in a letter he wrote and sent to Simon in prison several months after his suicide attempt.

The content of Shaun Hall’s letter hinted he had known all along of his brothers guilt to his murder.

Shaun Hall made three sworn witness statements to Suffolk police.

One 6 page statement on the 25th July 2002. Which was the day the police carried out a dawn raid at Hill House Road, in Ipswich, where Shaun was living with his brother Simon and Simon’s girlfriend Phoebe Grant, then two further 1 page statements in August 2002.

The reason Shaun Hall was required to make further statements was because his bare faced lies in his first statement did not tally with the evidence given by the other Hall family members or that of his ex girlfriend Leigh Marshall.

Shaun Hall’s double binds must have set off alarm bells.

The opening 2 sentences of Shaun Hall’s first witness statement read;

I am the person stated above and I reside at the address shown overleaf together with Leigh Marshall and our fifteen month old son, X

I am presently in the process of moving out of that address to other accommodation which better suits our domestic needs. Leigh will remain with X at the current address
Excerpts from Shaun Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002 (X = son of Shaun Hall & Leigh)

However on page 2 of the same statement, Shaun Hall stated;

In May 2002, due to domestic circumstances, I moved into my brothers and his girlfriends address at 25 Hill House Road, Ipswich. Simons girlfriend is known to me as Phoebe Grant, although her first name is Hannah.

Whilst staying with them, I would pay for my keep in kind, paying for food and for some bills relating to the premises. I remained there with them until about 18th July 2002 when I moved to my present address, following a reconciliation with Leigh, my girlfriend

I would describe my relationship with my brother Simon as being a typical brother – brother relationship. However I recall being jealous of Simon when we were younger as he had more friends than me

I have never really ‘hung out’ with Simon or his friends, either when we were younger, or nowadays

There was only one key to 25 Hill House Road, Ipswich and I found it difficult living there with Simon and ‘Phoebe’ and there was a bit of friction between Phoebe, Simon and I, due to what I think is Phoebes controlling nature
Excerpts from Shaun Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

Shaun Hall’s third police witness statement read;

I am the above named person living at the address detailed overleaf. Further to my previous statement I wish to confirm that I have been at this address since mid July 2002, but also regularly staying at my girlfriend, Leigh Marshall’s flat in Lindbergh Road

Between the beginning of June 2002 and up to the date I purchased this flat in mid July, I stayed at my brother’s Simon Hall, house at 25 Hill House Road in Ipswich. Prior to this I stayed at my parent’s address, at 8 Snowcroft in Capel St Mary, for just over a week, as Leigh and I had temporarily finished our relationship

Prior to the relationship breaking up, I lived with Leigh, our son X, and Leigh’s dad at *** Lindbergh Road, Ipswich, from around September 2000 until I moved out at the end of May 2002
Shaun Hall’s police witness statement dated 27th August 2002

On the 11th June 2002 Suffolk police carried out further searches of addresses and cars linked to Simon Hall, which Shaun Hall would have been aware of due to the fact he was living with his brother Simon, and Simon’s girlfriend Phoebe Grant at the time.

Shaun Hall’s first police witness statement detailed the previous girlfriends his brother Simon had had or lived with “since he left the family home in Capel St Mary”, as well as detailing the cars his brother had owned “since about June 2001”.

Shaun Hall stated;

When Simon was about eighteen (18) or nineteen years of age (19), he left the family home in Capel St Mary, and eventually lived at The YMCA, Norwich Road, Ipswich where he got into some trouble, which my parents and mother in particular, blames herself in part, in that she feels she let Simon down by not being there for him

Just like his adoptive parents, Lynne and Phil Hall, Shaun Hall also ghosted his brother Simon Hall’s girlfriend Stephanie Bon.

It is not known if conversations were had between Simon and Shaun Hall, and/or Lynne and Phil Hall, in relation to Simon’s jewellery but Simon’s silver neck chain, which he was wearing at the time he committed his murder of Joan Albert, was seized by police on the day of his arrest.

The silver neck chain was screened for the presence of blood and none was found.

However, according to both Shaun and Simon Hall, they swapped bracelets after the police had carried out forensic searches on the 11th June 2002.

Shaun Hall stated;

About three weeks ago, I swapped a bracelet with Simon, for another similar one

The bracelet in question I would describe as being silver metal, of a ’chunky’ design

I have today (Thursday 25th July 2002) handed this bracelet to WPc 997 Wells of the Suffolk Constabulary which she has seized as Police Exhibit TW/25
Excerpts from Shaun Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

Shaun Hall’s witness statement did not say why he chose to swap bracelets, but given the fact Simon Hall was clearly under suspicion of murder by the police at this point, it’s not difficult to work out why this may have occurred.

It is not known if Simon or Shaun Hall initiated the idea of swapping bracelets.

The most blatant of Shaun Hall lies to Suffolk police was during his 1st statement given on the 25th July 2002 in relation to the family Christmas meal.

Shaun Hall stated;

During the weekend of the 15th, 16th December 2001 I recall working overtime at my place of employment from about 8am – 1pm on Saturday 15th December 2001

I further recall having an argument with my girlfriend Leigh when I got home, in relation to a planned family visit to Lincolnshire the next day. Leigh and X were due to travel with my parents, Simon and I for a family reunion with my mothers side of the family

However X was ill and Leigh was refusing to let him travel as a result of this

I was upset about this, as my mothers parents had not seen X before

I remained at home with Leigh and X for the rest of the day and overnight in to Sunday morning, 16th December 2001, when at about 9.30am my father collected me in his company car along with Simon

We three then returned to Capel St Mary to collect my mother, from where we then continued on to Lincolnshire

We all had lunch together with my maternal Grandparents, Raymond and Joyce *******, and my mothers brother Steve, and his wife and daughter, X and X *******. There were about eight (8) other persons present whose names I cannot recall

After lunch (at a pub, the name of which I do not recall), we went on to my Grandparents’ home, where we remained until about 5pm

My parents Simon and I then travelled back to Suffolk, where they dropped me off at home at about 7.30pm

I recall later that evening, my mother telephoning me on 01473 ****** and telling me that Joan Albert – a friend of hers from Capel St Mary – had been found dead

Joan was known to my mother as a friend, who she would help out. Joan lived close to my parents but I never met her nor visited her home

I do not recall anything unusual about Simon over that weekend, other than the usual, he had no money
Excerpts from Shaun Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

Phil Hall had already told the police on the 20th December 2001, 4 days after his adoptive son Simon’s murder of Joan Albert, he had only been with one of his adopted sons that day. Phil Hall stated;

On Sunday 16th December 2001, my wife, son, and myself went out for the day, we arrived home late evening. I noticed the police ‘Closed’ sign along Boydlands and having listened to our answerphone messages discovered an incident had occurred with Mrs Albert
Excerpt from Phil Hall’s 20th December 2001 police witness statement

Shaun Hall’s on/off girlfriend Leigh Marshall also told police about a month after Shaun made his first police witness statement, that they had stayed at home to care for X, their 10 month old son. Leigh stated;

Further to my previous statement I wish to add that on Saturday the 15th of December 2001, I believe I remained at my parents address of (redacted) with my young son X who had been quite ill and only released from hospital on the previous Thursday. I can’t remember if my boyfriend Shaun Hall had been working that day, but in the evening he remained at the house with me and our son. At this time we were both living with my dad

On 16th December 2001, we were all meant to be attending a large family meal but, due to X being ill, Shaun and I remained at home
Excerpt’s from Leigh Marshall’s police witness statement dated 27th August 2002

Not unlike Simon Hall’s then girlfriend Stephanie Bon, Lynne and Phil Hall also ghosted their grandchild X from their narrative of events surrounding the weekend of Joan Albert’s murder.

Lynne and Phil Hall also made no mention to the police about Shaun and Leigh’s argument over not taking their 10 month old son X to the family Christmas meal, even though X had only been discharged from hospital on Thursday the 13th of December.

Shaun Hall also claimed in his 2nd police witness statement that he had asked his adoptive mother Lynne Hall to call him to let him know they were home safe.

Further to my original statement I wish to state that on Sunday the 16th of December 2001 I did not go, with my mum, dad and brother Simon to Stoke Rochford. This is an annual event, where my mums side of the family meet up for a meal

Initially I thought I had attended, but remember that my young son X had been quite ill, so I had remained at home with him and my girlfriend. My mum and dad were a bit annoyed as some of the family had not seen X

I cannot remember exactly what I did on the Sunday, but think I remained at the house with X and my girlfriend. I can confirm that I did receive a phone call from my mum around 9.30pm Sunday night. Originally I had asked her to call me, so I knew they were home safe but this is when she told me that Joan was dead
Shaun Hall’s 6th August 2002 police witness statement

Suffolk police call reports show no records of Lynne Hall telephoning Shaun Hall on Sunday the 16th December 2001.

Link to Part 11a here

Jamie Barker & The CCRC – Part 10b©️

Simon Hall wrote about his and Jamie Barker’s burglary of Zenith Windows in Ipswich, which they carried out after Simon had left a message on his adoptive parents Lynne and Phil Hall’s answer phone at 5.01am.

Simon Hall stated in his 28th January 2013 blog;

I left a message on my parents answer phone at 5.01am, to say don’t worry I will be back in time for the journey to Grantham for our Christmas dinner with the extended family
Excerpt from Simon Hall’s blog 28th January 2013 blog

Link to full blog below;

Simon Hall’s 28th January 2013 Blog

It is not known if Simon Hall had argued with one or both of his adoptive parents about their decision to not allow his girlfriend Stephanie Bon to attend the family Christmas meal on the Sunday and whether or not he had told one, or both of them, he was not going to attend the Christmas meal, but in his Proof of evidence statement Simon Hall stated in relation to his sleeping arrangements;

I am starting to wonder where I am going to stay for the night
Excerpt from page 8 of Simon Hall’s Proof of evidence statement

It is also not known if the reason Stephanie Bon claimed Simon ‘disappeared’ that weekend, was because he had originally planned to stay at her house and/or because they had argued over Stephanie Bon apparently not being allowed to attend the Hall family Christmas meal.

But during his police interviews (following his arrest) Simon Hall told Suffolk police he wanted to get out of his adoptive parents house as soon as possible that day.

The following is an extract from Simon’s 1st record of interview from the 26th of July 2002 (Page 15);

Dc 461 Just a couple of things Simon. I remember in the first interview you said that when you got ready to go out we asked you, I think, you know, are you or when were you going out, and you said as soon as possible
SJH Hmm
Dc 461 What did you mean by that?
SJH Being at home is all well and good
Dc 461 Right
SJH Erm but, It’s a very unusual atmosphere

And in his 2nd interview on that day, referring to sleeping arrangements, Simon Hall stated;

I was going to hint to Jamie to see if I could stay at his gaff
Statement of Simon Hall from page 33 of 2nd Record of interview dated 26th July 2002

Although Jamie Barker did choose to speak out publicly following Simon Hall’s trial, Jamie Barker has not spoken publicly about his burglary of his previous employers.

The media reported on the burglary two days after Simon Hall’s blog was published, a Suffolk police spokesperson was reported to have stated;

[We] can confirm a burglary was reported at a property in St Helens Street overnight between 15 and 16 December 2001.

This incident was considered at the time by the team investigating the murder, but no link was found

Suffolk Police will liaise with CCRC in relation to Mr Hall’s claims
Excerpts from BBC article headed Joan Albert murder: Simon Hall’s Ipswich burglary claim dated 30th January 2013

And the CCRC (criminal cases review commission) reportedly stated;

The commission is aware of the new information that has come to light and it will be considered in our ongoing investigation into Mr Hall’s case
BBC news article dated the 30th January 2013

The CCRC were due to meet with Simon Hall sooner than they eventually did but Simon Hall attempted suicide sometime on Sunday the 24th February 2013 and was admitted to Ipswich hospital in the early hours of Monday the 25th of February.

Simon Hall’s suicide attempt was not linked to the side effects of Zyban (as was reported to and by the media) and was instead down to the fact his mask finally came off and his guilt to his murder of Joan Albert was being exposed.

However, after 4 days in hospital Simon Hall was returned back to HMP Hollesley Bay open prison and he made arrangements to meet with the CCRC.

John Curtis ~ Case review manager at the criminal cases review commission

Below is a transcript of John Curtis’s letter;

Dear Mr Hall,

Thank you for your letter of 16 March 2013 and your consent for the Commission to obtain your medical records.

Thank you also for agreeing to meet with us on Thursday 4 April. The meeting will be with Mrs Celia Sophal and Mr Charles Moffat. As previously mentioned both are members of Commission staff and neither has any direct involvement in your case previously (although both have now been briefed for the purposes of the interview). They will aim to be at Hollesley Bay with a view to starting the interview at 11:00 am.

We have been in touch with Mr Garner as Head of Residence and understand that a room is being made available. We also understand that lunch is at midday so depending on how much is covered by then, there may be some further matters to discuss in the afternoon.

We note also your comments about mentioning events to the duty nurse following the trial and will certainly keep this in mind when reviewing the documents.

Once you have met with my colleagues and they have reported back, we will decide how best to proceed with the review.

Thank you again for the prompt response

On the 4th April 2013 Celia Sohpal, a solicitor and case review manager and Charles Moffat a retired police detective superintendent, working as an investigations adviser for the CCRC, met with Simon Hall at HMP Hollesley Bay.

Retired police detective superintendent Charles Moffat

Following the meeting, John Curtis sent a brief letter and ‘typed summary’ to Simon Hall.

The typed summary can be read in full here.

Below is a transcript of John Curtis’s letter;

Dear Mr Hall,

Further to your meeting with Charles and Celia, I enclose a typed summary of the discussion held on 4 April 2013.

I also include a pre-paid envelope for any further comments you may have.

As I have indicated to Stephanie, we aim to write with an update on the review towards the end of next week together with information concerning the timescales (26 April 2013).

I hope that you feel the enclosed summary fairly represents your account but please let us know if there are any matters arising from it.
Transcript of letter from John Curtis to Simon Hall dated 19th April 2013

Simon Hall indicated to the CCRC it was Jamie Barker’s idea to burgle his previous place of employment, as can be seen in the following extracts;

Celia Sophal: Whose idea was it?
Simon Hall: I am 99% sure that Jamie opened the window of Zenith Windows. I wouldn’t do that sort of thing. Nor him; but he had knowledge. I don’t know what made him do it. We weren’t thinking straight. We had been drinking since 7.30 the night before
Celia Sophal: Did either of you say anything?
Simon Hall: I remember Jamie complaining about Zenith Windows, saying he had worked there. He called the bosses ’wankers’. That could have been the inspiration
Celia Sophal: Do you remember what the window opened into?
Simon Hall: The window we went in by was to a telesales office. It was the main room as you go into Zenith Windows off the street
Celia Sophal: Who did what?
Simon Hall: I think we kind of split up inside the office and had a look around, looking in drawers and that
Celia Sophal: Independently?
Simon Hall: Yes there was no chit chat. We just grabbed and picked thing’s up in there independently
Celia Sophal: Do you remember the locker?
Simon Hall: It was about a metre tall. I remember shaking the locker and thinking there was something in it. It was locked away so I thought it could be something good
Celia Sophal: What happened to the locker?
Simon Hall: We went to the Woolpack. After this I put everything (all 4 CD players and the locker) in the back of my car. Jamie had none of it. I parked up my car. We had a family meal on the Sunday and I don’t think I took the stuff out until Monday. I had been to work to ask for time off to look after my Mom because she was in bed poorly; upset (about the murder). I took it out of the car and went to the garage for tools to open the locker. To my surprise, when I got it open there was nothing in it, just a bit of metal inside doing all the banging. It was just a grey locker with nothing distinctive on it
Celia Sophal: How long were you in Zenith Windows again?
Simon Hall: We were only in Zenith Windows for 10 minutes at the most
Celia Sophal: Had you been in Zenith Windows before?
Simon Hall: No. Jamie worked there. I didn’t have any other connection with Zenith Windows (apart from Jamie). I had no reason to go there. My girlfriend Phoebe worked at Zenith at some stage but I’m not sure when that was. I had no reason to go there
Celia Sophal: Had you done anything like that before?
Simon Hall: Not me. I had no need to do it. I had previous for fighting, not theft
Celia Sophal: How did you feel when you were in there?
Simon Hall: I remember it was a little bit exciting when we went into Zenith. It was scary at times as well. Like when you know you are doing something wrong. I don’t remember any conversation with Jamie about it. I had never done anything like that before
Celia Sophal: What happened to the locker?
Simon Hall: I disposed of the locker in a skip in the works car park – State Chemicals. I threw the pieces of the locker in there
Celia Sophal: And the CD players?
Simon Hall: I offered the CD players to Stephanie Bon and her brother
Celia Sophal: What did they say?
Simon Hall: They wanted to know where they came from. I’m not sure what I said; probably said that they fell off the back of a lorry. They took the CD players
Celia Sophal: Did they pay for them?
Simon Hall: No. I gave them to them. I didn’t want or need them and they didn’t give me any money
Celia Sophal: In the timeline what time did you leave the Old Rep?
Simon Hall: 4.10. I know times. I’m always conscious of time. I don’t remember if I looked at my watch but there is a clock by the fruit machines in the Old Rep
Celia Sophal: So you leave the Old Rep at 4.10. What happens till 5.01?
Simon Hall: We were just wandering around-ambling
Celia Sophal: Are you happy with the time of 5.01 for the phone call?
Simon Hall: Yes it makes sense to me. I had an arrangement with my Mom that I would phone and leave a message however late it was so she would know where I was
Celia Sophal: So you’re on the bench a bit longer. Show me how it works (on the map)
Simon Hall: Zenith is right by Majors Corner. It was just me & Jamie. We were milling around
Celia Sophal: 10 minutes inside Zenith but you just wandered around picking things up at random?
Simon Hall: If there was anything in the desk drawers I looked in I would have taken it. I thought the locker might be a cash box
Celia Sophal: Any further discussions about stealing?
Simon Hall: I don’t remember anything like let’s look for this or that. I just thought there could be something worth taking
Celia Sophal: You didn’t find cash?
Simon Hall: No
Celia Sophal: Did you have a locker each?
Simon Hall: I only remember 1 locker. We each had 2 CD players. When we went back to the Woolpack the gate to the car park at the back was shut. I hid the CD players and locker round the side of the pub so Scott (the landlord) wouldn’t see them. This was at about 6. Scott was angry when he came down to us. I think I remember him saying ”what are you doing? It’s 6 o’clock”
Celia Sophal: This timeline is important so we are trying to get it accurate. Was Scott asked about this?
Simon Hall: Yes he said it was between 5 & 6
Celia Sophal: Anything you can think of to help prove these events?
Simon Hall: Not sure. The timing is confusing. I know the account at trial is wrong. It was not 6.28 till I sat down with Mom
Celia Sophal: The 5-6 window?
Simon Hall: I don’t believe so. I got the car and drove to Jamie’s house. Takes 5 minutes then I headed home. Then it was 20 minutes to go home from Jamie’s. When Mom got up she said it was 6 by the clock and the video which is set by radio frequency. She went downstairs and put the kettle on to boil. When it boiled I was back. I think I was home at 6.10 going by my Mom’s clock. The clock and the video were showing the same time. I’m not sure about the time I was going to bed not the time I got home. I got sucked into the 6.28 thing. I thought it must be right. I didn’t tell my lawyers anything other than the time on the microwave could have been wrong
Celia Sophal: So what promoted you to tell us about the burglary now?
Simon Hall: Stephanie prompted me to tell about the burglary. She was angry with me for not telling her till last November. I said the burglary and the murder weren’t linked. She said you must tell someone
Celia Sophal: Have you ever discussed this with your legal representatives at trial, at your appeal or the members of the Innocence project who helped ypu?
Simon Hall: I didn’t tell my legal representatives about the burglary. I have not told anyone in the legal team at any stage
Celia Sophal: Have you told anyone?
Simon Hall: The only people I told was when I was on a visit with Mom Dad and Phoebe – and it might have been Shaun. I can’t remember what I said but told them we went into Zenith and took a few things. Mom was upset. We all agreed it wouldn’t help to tell anyone. I thought anything that happened before 5.30 wouldn’t help or influence things. I had put this to the back of my mind. I had kind of forgotten about it. It had gone. I’m only raising it now because Steph said it could help

Below is a copy of Simon Hall’s reply to John Curtis’s letter and typed summary;

Simon Hall had already told Suffolk police during his 1st interview on the 26th July 2002 (Page 18) that his watch was broken.

Following Simon Hall’s suicide in 2014, a letter from his adoptive mother Lynne Hall was discovered. Lynne Hall had sent Simon the letter in October 2009, after learning the CCRC were referring Simon’s murder conviction back to the court of appeal.

Lynne Hall’s letter read in part;

I’m carrying on reading through all the statements here again as we can’t rest on our laurels yet & questions still keep coming that need answering & I have to jog my memory 8 years down the line, brain not as young as it was! Ha! Last question was about The Police & The Investigation into other crimes in area that could have been related
Excerpt from Lynne Hall’s letter to Simon Hall, following the CCRC’s public announcement they were referring his murder conviction to the court of appeal, dated October 2009

**Copy of part of letter from Lynne Hall’s letter to her adoptive son Simon Hall dated October 2009**

Lynne Hall’s statement regarding ‘other crimes in the area that could have been related’ was clearly about her knowledge of the Zenith Windows burglary.

Link to Part 11 here

When The Mask Begins To Slip – Part 10a©️

Simon Hall’s mask began to slip following the Zenith Windows burglary revelation and his guilt to his murder of Joan Albert, along with the lies and concoctions of those closest to him at the time he chose to commit murder, began to be exposed.

Simon Hall was transferred to an open prison just under a month after his lies about his movements in the early morning hours of Sunday the 16th December 2001 were made known to Stephanie (Hall).

Prior to his trial in February 2003, a forensic psychologist collated a pre-sentence report and concluded Simon Hall presented with a dissocial personality disorder.

But by early 2008, Simon duped another forensic psychologist into disagreeing with the original psychologists findings.

Then by early 2008 the original findings were seemingly all but cancelled out, with Simon Hall no longer having a personality disorder or any mental health issues.

This new clean bill of mental health aided Simon Hall to fabricate a Guittard application, assisted by a willing prison solicitor called David McCorkle.

Not long before the Zenith Windows burglary revelation, Simon Hall had applied for a downgrade in his prison status and an early move to open prison conditions, by-passing the parole board in the process.

Prison solicitor David McCorkle aided Simon Hall’s deception in completing the Guittard application, which Simon’s then wife had strongly objected to at the time.

David McCorkle and Simon Hall had indicated in their Guittard application, which was subsequently signed off by a representative for the then secretary of state for justice, that Simon had the support of his family.

But in reality Simon Hall had not seen his adoptive parents Lynne and Phil Hall and older brother Shaun Hall for several years by this point. And neither of them had been supportive during this time.

The successful but deceptive Guittard application allowed Simon Hall to be downgraded to a D-category status prisoner on the 1st of November 2012, 4 days before his then wife Stephanie (Hall) learned he and others had lied about the Zenith Windows burglary.

Simon Hall moved to an open prison on the 30th of November 2012, which was quicker than most other lifer prisoners, in part because the prison he was moving from, HMP Kingston was closing down.

Simon Hall’s prison move took 4 days due to there being no spaces available at HMP Hollesley Bay open prison until the 3rd of December 2012, so Simon was required to spend a couple of nights in HMP Chelmsford in between the move.

Simon Hall had originally received a life sentence for his murder of Joan Albert, which was eventually calculated to work out at 13 years, minus time spent on remand, although the 2011 Court of Appeal judgment wrongly stated;

The appellant was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment and ordered to serve a minimum period of 16 years
[2011] EWCA Crim 4

Had Simon Hall been rightly convicted for the crimes he actually committed ie; a sexually motivated murder, it is likely his starting sentence would have been set at a minimum of 20 years or more.

Throughout the time the Hall family and Stephanie Bon publicly campaigned on Simon Hall’s behalf, they all claimed Simon had never committed a burglary before.

Scott Lomax, who refers to himself as a ’campaigner and true crime author’, and who also promoted other guilty killers innocence fraud, wrote and published a blog on Simon Hall’s false protestations of innocence stating;

Why would someone with no history of burglary suddenly decide to take a detour on his way home to commit a burglary or murder?
Excerpt from Scott Lomax’s public blog reproduced here

It is not known who Scott Lomax’s source was for this false claim, however following the publication of a blog on the 28th January 2013, written by Simon Hall, in which he gave his first public explanation for why he chose to not tell Suffolk police about the burglary, an orchestrated, malicious and ferocious smear campaign, focused on Simon Hall’s then wife, intensified.

The two main protagonists of this smear campaign were Simon Hall’s older brother Shaun Hall and Stephanie Bon, who were by this point boyfriend and girlfriend.

Shaun Hall and Stephanie Bon made numerous statements on internet forums, websites and social media and it was through their numerous statements where Simon Hall’s, the Hall family and Stephanie Bon’s lies and concoctions were exposed.

Following the publication of Simon Hall’s blog on his (and Jamie Barker’s) burglary of Zenith Windows, Simon’s brother Shaun Hall made the following public statement aimed at h Stephanie (Hall), in relation to his (Shaun’s) deceptive girlfriend Stephanie Bon;

She’s just going to put her side to your story finally…

Just remember, it’s YOUR show, YOU made this happen because YOU love the attention so now you have attention from people who actually know what goes on behind closed doors.
Public statement by Shaun Hall made on the 28th January 2013

Shaun Hall also stated in relation to his girlfriend Stephanie (Steph/Steffie) Bon;

I did indeed speak to Steph yesterday and she’s putting something together just for you so keep checking
Statement made by Shaun Hall dated the 28th January 2013

Shaun Hall was referring to public statements Stephanie Bon was putting together to publish on her now defunct website called ‘Inside Doubt’,

Screen grab of Stephanie Bon’s ‘Inside Doubt’ website

some of which read as follows;

My only interest in Simon’s case is and always has been to see justice be done for Mrs Albert

I feel that malicious gossip and bad press did not help Simon when he was first arrested and to replicate it on a website to help free him just doesn’t make sense to me

It is a shame that J4S had to be taken down as it had a lot of supportive messages from people to Simon as well as a lot of good press showing support and progress and also the turnaround of people’s opinion back then, despite the allegations made by mrs h, it did help Simon and brought attention to his case

I am disappointed that Simon didn’t feel he could share his latest revelation with me at the time I started J4S or during my work campaigning as I would definitely have advised him to seek the best advise and own up to the appropriate people as opposed to being speculated and gossiped about until it got leaked on a public forum

Despite mrs h’s allegations, Simon did not disclose this information to me as he well knows
Some of the public statements made by Stephanie Bon in February 2013

When Stephanie Bon was interviewed by Suffolk police in September 2002, she chose to make no mention of the stolen CD players Simon Hall had taken to her house

but in a private message (PM) to Stephanie (Hall), after her public statements where she claimed she did not know of the burglary revelations, Stephanie Bon stated;

If you ask your husband, he will tell you that he brought 2 cd players to my house when we were going out after he had disappeared for a weekend and noone knew where he was. He’d been nicked for the night but this was way before Joan was murdered, nothing to do with the case, so do you want to add another robbing to the list? maybe he’s lying to you? My brother was there and other people saw them, I went mental and threw them out! You stupid cow, are you going to announce another fuck up of his publicly? Shall i? unlike you, its not Simon i want to damage, its you! (sic)
Message from Stephanie Bon dated 4th February 2013

The weekend Stephanie Bon was referring to, where she claimed Simon Hall had ‘disappeared’ and ’been nicked for the night’ was the weekend of the 15th and 16th December 2001, the weekend Simon Hall had chosen to murder Joan Albert and the same weekend he had travelled to Lincolnshire with his adoptive parents Lynne and Phil Hall for a family Christmas meal.

Stephanie Bon’s brother Olivier Bon also made no mention to Suffolk police about ’being there’ when Simon Hall had taken the stolen Zenith Windows CD players to his sister Stephanie’s house in Colchester (the night after his murder of Joan Albert) and Olivier Bon also made no mention about his sister Stephanie Bon going ’mental’ on that night.

Link to Part 10b here

The Zenith Windows Burglary ’Secret’- Part 10©️

In the early hours of the Sunday morning, before committing his murder, Simon Hall and his work colleague Jamie Barker had carried out a burglary at a company called Zenith Windows.

Zenith Windows was located at 19 St Helen’s Street in Ipswich and was not far from where Simon Hall had parked his car on the previous night.

Phoebe Grant – Photograph courtesy of Sarah Grant

Zenith Windows was also Jamie Barker’s, and Phoebe Grant’s previous place of employment.

Suffolk police were aware of the Zenith Windows burglary in Ipswich town centre, but seemingly it was not until after they learned Simon Hall and Jamie Barker had walked by Zenith Windows, on the way back to collect Simon’s car, that the police suspected Simon and Jamie could have been responsible for the burglary.

A note contained within an Operation Magdala forensic science service (FSS) report form stated;

The third item submitted are tapings from a burglary that occurred in Ipswich town centre, in the area walked by the defendant and an associate on the night of the offence

A further note, on the same FSS form stated;

The third item should again be screened for the same fibres, together with the green/grey fibres also of interest. This is to establish the potential involvement of the defendant in this crime, and hence establish a possible motive for the offence at 15 Boydlands

A scenes of crime report linked to the fibre tapings of the Zenith Windows burglary, dated the 5th August 2002, can be viewed by tapping on the link below;

Scenes Of Crime Report – Zenith Windows 5th August 2002

Jamie Barker and Simon Hall stole several items from Zenith Windows, including CD players and a ‘microwave oven’ sized locker, which according to Lynne Hall apparently ended up in her garden in Snowcroft, Capel St Mary.

And according to Simon Hall, Lynne Hall apparently told her adoptive son Simon to ‘get rid of it’.

The microwave size description were the words used by Lynne Hall when she finally disclosed to Simon Hall’s then wife Stephanie (Hall) (on the 5th November 2012) what the stolen locker had looked like.

Simon Hall’s admission to the Zenith Windows burglary came about after news of the burglary was leaked by a previous girlfriend of Shaun Hall, Simon’s older brother.

Sarah, an ex girlfriend of Shaun Hall, had apparently bumped into a woman called Karen outside of the Co-op food store in Capel St Mary in November 2012.

Karen, who also lived in the village of Capel St Mary, and who had been following and supporting Simon Hall’s innocence fraud campaign (As it turned out to be) contacted Simon Hall’s then wife Stephanie (Hall) and asked her what she knew about a ’safe’.

Stephanie (Hall) had no idea what Karen was referring to and when Karen told her about the Zenith Windows burglary she was shocked by this revelation.

After breaking into Zenith Windows, Simon Hall and Jamie Barker had apparently carried the stolen items back to Simon’s car, which was parked up in the car park of the nearby Woolpack public house, run by Scott Doughty.

Simon Hall claimed the stolen goods were then put into the boot of his car before he dropped Jamie Barker home in Ipswich and drove back to Capel St Mary, where he went on to commit his murder of Joan Albert.

Karen went on to tell Stephanie (Hall) how Lynne Hall had apparently told Sarah (An ex girlfriend of Shaun Hall’s) words to the effect of;

“Simon could not have murdered Joan Albert because at the time he was committing a burglary in Ipswich”

Simon Hall claimed that he and Jamie Barker had gained access to the Zenith windows premises through a ‘sash window’.

After learning Simon Hall (and many others) had lied to her about the Zenith Windows burglary Stephanie (Hall) questioned what else Simon Hall (and these other people) had lied about and also questioned could Simon Hall have been responsible for murdering Joan Albert.

Following the Zenith Windows burglary revelation in November 2012 more revelations would follow.

At the time of the Zenith Windows burglary revelation, Simon Hall had already sacked his solicitor Correna Platt and was instead being represented by Michael Naughton of Bristol University.

Gabe Tan and Michael Naughton. Photograph courtesy of Jim Naughton for the Observer

As soon as she learned about the Zenith Windows burglary, Stephanie (Hall) notified Michael Naughton and Gabe Tan.

Gabe Tan was then the executive director of the Innocence Network UK (INUK) and the University of Bristol Innocence Project, working alongside Michael Naughton.

Stephanie (Hall) telephoned and emailed Michael Naughton and Gabe Tan on the 5th November 2012.

Stephanie (Hall) had already telephoned Lynne Hall to ask her what she knew about the Zenith Windows burglary and asked her why she, and Simon Hall (And others) had not told the police about this during their investigation into the murder of Joan Albert.

Lynne Hall had initially said to Stephanie (Hall) if she told anyone about the burglary Lynne Hall would call her (Stephanie) ‘a liar’.

It was during this initial telephone conversation when Lynne Hall also told Stephanie (Hall) thqt she had seen the microwave size locker in her garden on the morning of Sunday the 16th December 2001 and had apparently asked her adoptive son Simon what it was.

Lynne Hall also stated she had told Simon to ‘get rid’ of the stolen locker as she had apparently said she ’did not want it in her garden’, which Simon claimed he did on Monday the 17th December 2001, around the same time he disposed of the clothing, shoes and leather jacket he wore when he committed his murder of Joan Albert.

Gabe Tan sent Stephanie (Hall) an email on the 16th November 2012, and copied in Michael Naughton.

Gabe Tan stated in response to the Zenith Windows burglary admission;

In light of this new revelation, we feel that it is all the more important to get a first hand account from Simon himself
Excerpt from Gabe Tan’s email dated 16th November 2012

Gabe Tan also stated in her email to Stephanie (Hall);

I’ve attached the letter that we have sent him today. For the time being, we will continue with what we are doing in relation to the fibres and will re-consider our approach to his case when we obtain a full account from him

Please can you NOT notify the CCRC about this for the time being as we feel that it might have a negative impact on their review
Excerpt from Gabe Tan’s email dated 16th November 2012

Excerpts from Michael Naughton and Gabe Tan’s letter to Simon Hall read;

In addition, please provide us with the following information:

What was in the locker you and Jamie had stolen?

When did you dispose of it and how?

Did you speak to Jamie about this since the 16th December and since your arrest and conviction?

What did you and Jamie do after you had stolen the locker?

What time did you drop Jamie off on 16th December?

Have you told any one else about this break in? If so, please tell us who you have told and when you have told them

Why did you not disclose this at the time of your arrest and since your conviction?

We look forward to hearing from you in due course
Excerpts from Gabe Tan & Michael Naughton’s letter to Simon Hall dated November 2012

At the time of the November 2012 Zenith Windows burglary revelation, the criminal cases review commission (CCRC) were reviewing Simon Hall’s murder conviction for a second time.

In their 19th December 2012 letter addressed to Michael Naughton, Julie Goulding a CCRC commissioner stated;

In general terms, we can inform you that one piece of further work will relate to the chemometric analysis of the fibres. Although it appears this technique has not been used in relation to fibre evidence in British courts, some of the British experts we have consulted believe that it may be possible to take this forward. In doing so, we will have to be mindful of the issue set out in our letter dated 23rd November 2012

We will continue to consider the input from the American experts that you have mentioned but if your own research on this (or any other) matter has yielded any further information you feel may be relevant, please do let John Curtis know so that we can take account of that
Excerpt from Julie Goulding’s letter to Michael Naughton dated 19th December 2012

Link to Part 10a here

Killer Simon Hall: The “Affair”, Ghosting & Reinvention of Girlfriend Stephanie Bon, What Happened On Friday The 14th & The Christmas Meal At Stoke Rochford – Part 9a©️

What Happened On Friday The 14th Of December

As previously mentioned in Part 4 of this blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below;

Countdown to His Murder – PART 4

It is not known what went down on the weekend beginning Friday the 14th December 2001 or when exactly over that weekend Simon Hall told Stephanie Bon she was not able to attend the Hall family Christmas meal in Lincolnshire on the Sunday.

Nor is it known when Lynne Hall told her adoptive son Simon Hall his girlfriend Stephanie Bon could not attend the family Christmas meal.

This is presuming it was Lynne who told Simon; it could have been Phil Hall who delivered the news. Either way, the fact that all three of the Hall family members chose to not mention, or validate, Simon Hall’s relationship with Stephanie Bon was suspicious.

It is also not known, if, and when Simon Hall had said to Stephanie Bon ‘he was going out with some friends on the Saturday night’, as Stephanie Bon had claimed to police;

This had annoyed me and I remember questioning whether the relationship was worth continuing with. I believe Simon said he was going out with some friends on the Saturday night, although I am not sure
Excerpt from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

Simon Hall told police during his interviews he was due to meet with Laura T on the Saturday night. He had met Laura T around the ’middle or towards the end of October 2001’ in Kings Night Club in Copford, Essex, when he was out one night with Stephanie Bon’s brother Olivier Bon (See Part 5).

It is also not known if Simon Hall told his girlfriend Stephanie Bon he had been cheating on her or if Stephanie Bon had ever suspected he might be. Extracts from police interview read; (Pages 3-6 Record of interview)

Dc 1023 Right OK and how were you feeling in yourself? What were you sort of happy, were you..?
SJH Happy I had a Saturday night off
Dc 1023 Right
SJH I was enjoying a Saturday night
Dc 1023 OK and you were looking forward to the rest of the evening
SJH Yes. At the time I still didn’t know whether Laura was coming down or not, so I was still looking forward to seeing her
Dc 1023 Right. Had you had any conversation with her during the evening at all? Did you contact her or did she contact you for that matter?
SJH I think I spoke to her on three or four occasions
Dc 1023 Before?
SJH In the whole, during the whole evening itself
Dc 1023 OK. Right
SJH Yes, most of the conversations I think were in the Old Rep
Dc 1023 OK
SJH And they wouldn’t have been very long – Are you coming down? Still don’t know, let me phone my mate – I’ll get back to you – or – to ’phone me back – type thing

Further dialogue reads;

Dc 1023 …keep your voice up I will be grateful alright? Okay we are talking about a telephone call on that night the 15th of December, yeah?
SJH Yeah
Dc 1023 You said you were calling someone in Chelmsford?
SJH Yes
Dc 1023 Was that a girlfriend
SJH A girl called Laura
Dc 1023 Laura
SJH Ah ha, who I happened to bump into the night that I went to Colchester when I told Zoe that I’d pick her up
Dc 1023 Okay. Alright. And Laura is, Laura who?
SJH Her name is Laura T*********
Dc 1023 T********* And where does she live in Chelmsford
SJH I don’t know her address. I know how to get there but…
Dc 1023 Alright
SJH …I don’t know from the address
Dc 1023 Okay, and, and when you did contact her that night did you speak to her?
SJH Yeah
Dc 1023 And how did you speak to her? I mean what, did you use your mobile phone?
SJH Yeah, I phoned her to see what time she was coming down cause I was due to meet her at Liquid
Dc 1023 On that night?
SJH On that night
Dc 1023 And the number you, the telephone number you rang was that a landline or was that a mobile
SJH It was a mobile
Dc 1023 It was a mobile?
SJH Yeah
Dc 1023 And your arrangement, or should I say your ’date’ didn’t turn up, or did she turn up? Did she go to the pub?
SJH She didn’t turn up?
Dc 1023 She did not come
SJH She said ”I’m not coming, my mates not very well so I’m not going to come” Cause her mate was going to come as well
Dc 1023 Okay
SJH To meet another guy she’d met in Ipswich
Dc 1023 Right
SJH They couldn’t come, they couldn’t
Dc 1023 Alright, yeah. Alright. Was there anybody else you contacted that evening at all? You talked about previously er text facilities and things like that
SJH Yeah. I may have contacted Scott at the Woolpack, that may have led me to want to go there
Dc 1023 Right
SJH Would have been a karaoke because they are good. Phew! Top of my head I can’t think about. No, I’d spoken to Stephanie as well
Dc 1023 Hmm mm
SJH Or Oli, Olivier (inaudible)
Dc 1023 Yeah
SJH Erm
Dc 1023 Was that Stephanie Bon?
SJH Yeah
Dc 1023 And that will, and that. And you would have used your mobile phone again on that night?
SJH Yeah
Dc 1023 It’s obvious we’re talking about the same night. I apologise for that. So you would have rung them on their mobile or landline?
SJH Their mobile
Dc 1023 Their mobile
SJH I don’t know whether I did or I didn’t so

Simon Hall also initially attempted to give the police the impression he might have been with Stephanie Bon on Saturday the 15th December 2001. Extracts from police interviews read; (Page 20 Record of interview)

Dc 1023 Yes. So the 15th December the, I can tell you that was a Saturday
SJH Mmm
Dc 1023 Were you at home that day?
SJH I would have been, I would have been in the morning
Dc 1023 In the morning?
SJH Yes
Dc 1023 Ok. Can we, I know it’s seven months down the lane, line should I say, and it is going to be difficult, I’d like you to try if possible…
SJH Yes
Dc 1023 …best you can do is – what would be your typical Saturday if you like? I knowthey aren’t typical days, but if you can answer that question I’d appreciate it
SJH I would have woken up nine/half-nine perhaps, even ten o’clock
Dc 1023 Right
SJH I used to do some Saturday mornings at State Chemical as well, just to clear back-log whatever because if was very busy around that time
Dc 1023 Mmm
SJH And as well I’d go to Colchester then I’d go, once I’d finished up I’d probably go and see Stephanie and go round there and that’s more probable what I did do

Further extracts read;

Dc 1023 We’re just. Moving on to Saturday afternoon then, obviously bearing in mind we spoke about you may have gone to work but obviously you cannot recall exactly. Did you change your clothes in the afternoon, when you got back, if you did get back to Snowcroft?
SJH No, I’d wear the same clothes all the way through
Dc 1023 Okay. Alright. And your work clothes would be what? What sort of clothes would they be?
SJH For State Chemicals?
Dc 1023 Yes
SJH On the Saturday
Dc 1023 Yeah
SJH Would be jeans yeah. Just casual clothes because there’s no one, no visitors
Dc 1023 Okay
SJH So we can wear what we like
Dc 1023 So what you’re saying is, jeans is what you predominantly wear?
SJH Yeah. Well the dress code at State Chemical – Monday it was a suit, Tuesday it was shirt and tie, Wednesday starting to dress down
Dc 1023 Yeah
SJH Thursday, Friday was much what you like so long as it’s smart
Dc 1023 Okay. With regard to the afternoon on Saturday, 15th of December. what did you do? Where did you go for that matter. I’m, I mean, in that sort of form really?
SJH I don’t know. If I had been working at State Chemical I probably would have gone to see Stephanie or Olivier
Dc 1023 Right
SJH With them being quite local
Dc 1023 Right
SJH Erm I would, at that time I was teaching Stephanie, I was trying to teach Stephanie to drive

But Simon Hall did not see Stephanie Bon over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of December. Although some of the statements he made to the police during his interviews, and in his Proof of evidence statement, about the Christmas family meal and where he was going to sleep on the night of Saturday the 15th/16th December were interesting.

For example, referring to the time he spent in Ipswich town centre with Jamie Barker, before collecting his car and dropping Jamie off at his mothers house, Simon Hall stated;

At this stage, I had forgotten or at least not been worrying about the fact that I was required to be back home to head out in good time early the next morning for the Christmas family meal
Excerpt from page 5 of Simon Hall’s Proof of evidence statement

He also stated;

I am starting to wonder where I am going to stay for the night
Excerpt from page 8 of Simon Hall’s Proof of evidence statement

It is not known why Simon Hall could seemingly not go back to his adoptive parents Lynne and Phil’s house earlier, instead of walking around or why he really chose to phone their landline at 5.01am. Nor is it known why he considered asking Jamie Barker if he could ’stay at his gaff’, as he claimed during interviews; (Page 33 Record of interview)

Dc 461 And when you left the Old Rep, was that on your instigation or someone else’s instigation?
SJH That was Glen deciding he wanted to go to bed then
Dc 461 So you go
SJH Mmm
Dc 461 And if he hadn’t had said go, what were you going to do?
SJH I didn’t really know, I mean, I was at the stage there where I was too drunk to drive..
Dc 461 Mmm mm
SJH But had no car and had no means of getting home
Dc 461 Right
SJH I was going to hint to Jamie to see if I could stay at his gaff
Dc 461 Right, what about how you were feeling physically, I mean I know your a young man, but how were you feeling physically when it comes to a long day
SJH Oh I can handle it, I mean when I worked for the butchers I had to get up at two in the morning
Dc 461 Mmm

The police calls report also showed no evidence of Simon Hall telephoning, or attempting to telephone, Stephanie Bon on Saturday the 15th December but he did attempt to phone Laura T ten times.

Data from police calls report Saturday 15th December 2001

Telephone Number Time Duration
Laura T, Chelmsford 16:51:58 00:00:00
Matthew (Matt) 17:32:13 00:01:23
Matthew (Matt) 18:29:55 00:00:47
Laura T, Chelmsford 20:05:39 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 20:14:20 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 20:26:48 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 20:52:50 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 21:01:01 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 21:05:41 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 21:12:21 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 21:21:30 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 21:47:13 00:00:00

There was also no evidence from Simon Hall’s mobile telephone that he had attempted to phone Stephanie Bon on Sunday the 16th December. But evidence from the police calls report showed he had attempted to phone Laura T a further seven times;

Data from police calls report Sunday 16th December 2001

Telephone Number Time Duration
Laura T, Chelmsford 04:31:01 00:00:00
Scott Doughty 04:37:48 00:00:12
Phil and Lynne Hall 05:01:45 00:00:28
Laura T, Chelmsford 23:05:46 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 23:15:55 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 23:24:20 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 23:29:53 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 23:37:03 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 23:51:31 00:00:00

Stephanie Bon told police in September 2002;

The following Monday morning, the 17th December 2001, Simon did not turn up for work. He had been late in the past due to traffic, but nothing noticeable. He did not call me until the afternoon, when he explained that a lady his mum knew well had been murdered

I cannot remember if he came into work Monday afternoon or whether he came back on the Tuesday, but I could see he was quite shocked by the whole ordeal
Excerpts from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

Simon Hall did drive to work on the Monday morning and met with his line manager to ask for a couple of days off.

Data from the police calls report did show Simon Hall had attempted to make nine calls to Stephanie Bon’s mobile phone, starting from 15:37hrs, with only one call showing it had been answered by Stephanie Bon’s mobile at 19:29hrs.

It is not known if Stephanie Bon returned any of Simon Hall’s calls or if the three calls he made to State Chemicals were to speak with Stephanie Bon.

Data from police calls report Monday 17th December 2001

Telephone Number Time Duration
State Chemicals 09:06:58 00:01:05
State Chemicals 09:09:12 00:00:33
Laura T, Chelmsford 12:48:08 00:04:18
Laura T, Chelmsford 13:11:12 00:00:00
State Chemicals 14:47:14 00:00:46
State Chemicals 14:54:20 00:00:42
State Chemicals 14:56:12 00:01:08
Stephanie Bon 15:37:41 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 16:48:37 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 17:16:23 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 17:37:59 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 17:57:52 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 18:05:21 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 18:11:19 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 18:26:52 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 18:34:03 00:00:00
Laura T – Chelmsford 19:12:50 00:01:22
Stephanie Bon 19:29:00 00:00:21
Laura T – Chelmsford 21:16:02 00:00:00

Data from police calls report Tuesday 18th December 2001

Telephone Number Time Duration
Stephanie Bon 09:31:06 00:00:00
Phil and Lynne Hall 09:36:27 00:01:31
State Chemicals 11:44:22 00:02:16
State Chemicals 11:58:28 00:00:22
Stephanie Bon 12:19:47 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 12:21:12 00:00:36
Phil and Lynne Hall 12:51:31 00:00:34
Phil and Lynne Hall 13:29:36 00:00:07
Phil and Lynne Hall 14:03:26 00:02:11
Stephanie Bon 15:22:41 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 15:38:54 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 16:14:48 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 17:36:09 00:00:00
Phil and Lynne Hall 17:47:08 00:01:00
Stephanie Bon 19:26:07 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 19:30:06 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 19:38:59 00:00:47
Laura T, Chelmsford 20:05:38 00:01:19

Simon Hall’s mobile telephone only registered one outgoing call on Wednesday 19th December 2001

Telephone Number Time Duration
Laura T, Chelmsford 19:49:33 00:00:24

On the Thursday night Simon Hall had gone on a ‘double date’ with Laura T and her friend Nicola and her partner, after ‘Laura had booked tickets for the first showing of Lord of the Rings at Festival Leisure Park at Basildon’. (As per Laura T’s friend Nicola’s evidence Part 5)

Data from police calls report Thursday 20th December 2001

Telephone Number Time Duration
Laura T, Chelmsford 00:37:00 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 00:39:28 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 00:41:47 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 00:56:18 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 07:28:20 00:00:03
Stephanie Bon 07:38:45 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 09:01:08 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 11:24:48 00:00:08
Laura T, Chelmsford 11:33:30 00:01:59
Stephanie Bon 11:59:46 00:00:27
State Chemicals 12:34:46 00:01:22
Stephanie Bon 17:18:43 00:01:23
Stephanie Bon 17:35:37 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 18:28:52 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 18:31:14 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 18:37:17 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 18:41:07 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 18:43:18 00:00:00
Laura T, Chelmsford 18:45:37 00:00:00
Stephanie Bon 18:48:04 00:00:00

On the day Simon Hall was charged with Joan Albert’s murder, at the end of 2 days of questioning, the Evening Star newspaper reported;

Simon Hall, 24, of Hill House Road, Ipswich, will appear before South East Suffolk Magistrates Court tomorrow morning accused of stabbing the 79-year-old to death in her home

Mrs Albert was found dead in her night clothes in the hall of her Boydlands house on December 16 last year

Her brutal murder sparked one of Suffolk’s biggest police murder inquiries during which more than 1,000 statements were taken, 750 homes visited and 1,595 vehicles logged. Police also sent out more than 700 letters to Capel residents
‘Man charged with murder of Joan Albert’ ~ Evening Star news article dated 26th July 2002

The police continued to take statements from witnesses after Simon Hall had been charged, and Stephanie Bon and her brother Olivier Bon gave their statements on the 4th September 2002.

It is not known if Simon Hall and Stephanie Bon communicated at all from the time he was arrested up until when Stephanie Bon gave her statement, or if anyone associated with Simon Hall ie; his brother Shaun, adoptive parents Lynne and Phil, his girlfriend Phoebe Grant or someone else, made contact with Stephanie Bon or got a message to her (Or her brother) before she spoke to the police, but Simon Hall did write to his previous girlfriend Zoe following his arrest and charge.

A police officer gave the following statement;

On Wednesday the 7th August 2002 I was on duty in plain clothes at 10.25 am I received Z**/1 a letter from Simon Hall
Excerpt from police witness statement of police officer PC 495 dated 8th August 2002

Link to Part 9c ’The ‘Affair’, Ghosting & Reinvention of Stephanie Bon’ here

Killer Simon Hall: The “Affair”, Ghosting & Reinvention of Girlfriend Stephanie Bon, The Key To Snowcroft & The Bonfire Night Incident – Part 9©️

Covering Up For A Killer

Five months after Joan Albert’s murder, detective superintendent(DS) Roy Lambert made the following public statements;

Someone in Capel is withholding information, maybe deliberately.

Capel St Mary is where the final piece of the jigsaw lies

We are using every tool available to us to find the killer in this brutal murder
DS Roy Lambert via the Evening star article headed OAP’s killer being shielded say police dated 12th May 2002

But it was not just someone in Capel St Mary who withheld information deliberately from the police.

There were numerous other people in Capel St Mary, Ipswich and Colchester, which included Lynne, Phil and Shaun Hall, Jamie Barker and Stephanie Bon (At the very least).

All of whom were willing to obscure the truth to protect killer Simon Hall and protect their own reputations.

Stephanie Bon believed her and Simon Hall had become “an item” by ’October 2001’, whilst he was still in a relationship with Zoe.

Stephanie Bon stated to police;

Around October 2001, Simon and I became an item.

He used to stay at my house in Colchester, regularly, as it was so much more convenient for work.

Over time he left various items at my house

After a few weeks of being together, Simon introduced me to his parents Lynn and Phil.

Lynn was really friendly, and it was obvious she thought highly of Simon.

Phil always chatted to me too, I think they saw something quite serious in me and we all got on so well
Excerpts from Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

No Mention Of Girlfriend Stephanie Bon

Lynne, Phil and Shaun Hall were each asked by Suffolk police about previous relationships Simon Hall had had.

But all three of them chose to lie and omit Stephanie Bon from their evidence.

There was not a single mention of Stephanie Bon’s name in any of their police witness statements.

It was as though Stephanie Bon did not exist.

Two days after Joan Albert’s murder, Lynne Hall made her first sworn police witness statement.

Lynne was the first member of the Hall family to make a statement, she told police;

I live at an address which is known to police along with my husband Philip and son Simon
First sentence taken from Lynne Hall’s police witness statement dated 18th December 2001

Phil Hall was the next member of the Hall family to make a statement, and not unlike his wife Lynne, Phil told police;

I am the above named person and I live at my home address with my wife, Rosemary Lyn Hall, and my son, Simon Hall
First sentence from Phil Hall’s police witness statement dated 20th December 2001

But on the day of his adoptive son Simon Hall’s arrest, Phil Hall had changed his tune.

Instead of Simon living with him and his wife Lynne, Phil Hall told the police Simon “had a key” for 8 Snowcroft (Lynne and Phil’s house) but that Simon would often stay at “friends” houses.

Phil Hall stated;

Although neither of the boys lives with us at present Simon did stay last year between October and the end of December when I say stay I mean had a key to our house, it was often the case he would stay at friends houses
Excerpt from Phil Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

In reality Simon Hall stayed over at his girlfriend Stephanie Bon’s house regularly, although it is not known on exactly what dates Simon stayed over at her house.

All three of the Hall family members (Phil, Lynne and Shaun Hall) went into details with regards Simon Hall’s previous relationships, but they all avoided mentioning Stephanie Bon.

A woman who started working for State Chemicals in July 2001, and who eventually worked opposite Simon Hall, told police;

In September 2001 a male called Simon Hall joined the company and he worked within the Accounts department.

Simon worked opposite myself and I found him to be fairly friendly

Simon began an affair with a Stephanie Bon, who worked for State Chemical, and I didn’t really think this was a very nice thing to do
Excerpts from police witness statement of woman who ‘worked opposite’ Simon Hall dated 20th August 2002

Another woman who also started working at State Chemicals in September 2001, told police;

On 15th September 2001 I joined State Chemicals as a Marketing Assistant.

About a month after I joined a new male member started with the firm called Simon Hall.

He started in the Accounts department, which was in a different office to mine.

I remember that Simon was good looking and seemed a nice genuine guy.

He was laid back and always well dressed

Most Wednesday evenings, a group of us would go out into town for drinks and I could remember that Simon came out with us a couple of times

I believe that Simon was a bit quiet on these occasions, but would join in on the conversations.

Simon apparently had a girlfriend when he started at State Chemicals

While he was at State Chemicals he started seeing one of the employees, Stephanie Bon

Stephanie was not well liked by most of the staff so that is why Simon did not come out with us very often
Excerpts from police witness statement from another woman who worked with Simon Hall dated 22nd August 2002

Lynne Hall told police about the girlfriend her adoptive son Simon had been living with prior to Stephanie Bon;

That relationship began in March or April 2001

That relationship lasted until just before Christmas 2001, I had even bought presents for Zoe and X
Excerpts from Lynne Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

The Abuse Of Zoe

But “that relationship” did not last until before Christmas.

Simon Hall was in a relationship with Stephanie Bon by October. He was cheating on Zoe with Stephanie Bon.

Zoe’s father, who said in a previous statement that he “tolerated” Simon Hall, told police that Lynne Hall had telephoned his house just before Christmas.

Zoe’s father stated;

Further to the statement I made on Tuesday 30th of July 2002.

I would like to add that I remember receiving a phone call from Lynn (sic) Hall around Christmas.

I believe ***** and Zoe spoke to her but I did not speak to Lynn on this occasion
Excerpts from police witness statement of Zoe’s father dated 7th August 2002

And one of Zoe’s brothers stated, regarding Christmas presents;

One particular occasion, I noticed Simon seemed upset.

On asking him what was wrong he told me about his childhood, and the fact he had been physically abused by his parents.

He mentioned being hit and burnt by cigarettes, but I did not pry too much

Whilst Simon and Zoe were together, I got on well with Simon and he seemed a genuine nice guy

After the break of the relationship between Simon and Zoe, I remember a time just before Christmas when my parents asked me to go outside to meet Simon, as they didn’t want him in the house.

I met him outside in the street and he handed me some Christmas presents for Zoe’s son, X.

Simon was visibly upset crying and kept apologising for hurting Zoe and the family.

He was by himself and quickly stated that he had to go, got into his grey Volkswagen Golf and drove off

I have only seen him once more, since that incident, which was at the end of last year 2001 or the beginning of this year.

I was out one evening in Kartouche nightclub, Ipswich with some family members when I bumped into Simon.

He was very aminable (sic) and again apologised for the hurt he had caused the family.

Because I knew him before the relationship there was no reason for me to show any animosity and we had a quick chat

Since that incident I have had no further contact with Simon Hall
Excerpts from a brother of Zoe’s police witness statement dated 20th August 2002

Lynne Hall continued in her statement;

I think Zoe kicked him out towards the end

There was a lot of problems because Jo continued phoning Zoe and Simon and causing problems.

Zoe herself became very jealous and arguments ensued. In the end I think Simon could no longer deal with it, we have spoken about since (sic).

I tried to save the relationship as did Zoe’s parents
Excerpts from Lynne Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

It is not known if Zoe’s parents “tried to save the relationship” as Lynne Hall claimed but Zoe’s father stated; (Read more at Part 2)

The only time I spent a lot of time in his company was when he gave me a lift to London to pick up my new car.

It is fair to say I tolerated him rather than liked him
Excerpts from police statement of Zoe’s father dated 30th July 2002

Lynne Hall also told police;

As far as Zoe is concerned I remember they had one particularly bad argument on the Saturday night last year when the village celebrated bonfire night.

In fact just prior to that Saturday night last year they had argued and split up and Simon was living back home.

They went to the village bonfire night with me to attempt a reconciliation, the night went well and everything was OK

Simon ended up taking Zoe home and coming back by himself to our house.

After that he went round to a friends house, I can’t remember where or to who, he did get home late.

Zoe rang the following morning and because Simon was late up she got very angry about his lack of commitment

I would say that over the Christmas Simon was in a fairly good frame of mind even though he had had the problem with Zoe
Excerpts from Lynne Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

During Simon Hall’s police interviews, following his arrest, he told police he had ended up going to Colchester after the Fireworks in Capel St Mary.

Therefore he was not “up late” as his adoptive mother Lynne Hall had told police.

Simon Hall had spent the night in Colchester with Stephanie Bon and Lynne Hall had lied for him.

Below are extracts from Simon Hall’s 3rd police interview from the day of his arrest (Page 27 of Record of interview) referring to Zoe and bonfire night;

SJH And when trying to reconcile, everything was great, she said ”OK we’ll give it a go” and then that was Fireworks Night, she came down to the little Fireworks in Capel
Dc 1023 Yes
SJH With X her son, and everything was great and then she went home and she, her mate was with her, and her mate felt a bit ill. So I, I felt a little bit ill so I decided to go home and then on the way I felt a little bit better, so I just thought I’d go out and see my mates in Colchester
Dc 1023 Ah OK. Right. Sorry to hear that. OK. When, just to go on a stage further from there really, I’m just trying to, I just want to sum up. Stephanie BON wasn’t a serious relationship, it was just what they call an ’off and on relationship’ but Zoe was almost a permanent relationship
SJH Mmm
Dc 1023 Etc and the relationship was terminated due to the fact you went off to Colchester etc and you said that you were ill and you went home, but you didn’t go home you went to Colchester, so it was..
SJH She was very paranoid

Simon Hall’s line manager stated to police;

On Monday 23rd July 2001 I started working at State Chemicals MFG Europe Ltd 1 to 4, Eaglegate, East Hill, Colchester as the Finance Manager there

Simon came for an interview and was interviewed for the position by me but on that occasion he was not successful and we took on someone else

He spoke of having a girlfriend called Zoe

…. and wanted to settle down and that he’d taken on several jobs because of that

A further position for a purchase ledger clerk came up at State Chemicals a couple of weeks later so I contacted Cooper Lomaz Employment Consultants to see if Simon was still available

Simon came for the interview and was offered the position which he accepted and started at the East Hill offices on Monday 24th September 2001 as a purchase ledger clerk

About a month after Simon started working there he started seeing the Managing Director’s PA Stephanie Bonn, (sic) I don’t know exactly when their relationship became more than friends but it did become apparent that it was so after a while

In November/December 2001 Simon was involved in the company stock take which took place both in the UK and France. He went to France with four others from the company as our finance representative, Pascal ********, the Operations Manager, went together with other junior staff.

They went the first week of December 2001 for about 3 days, going over on the Monday afternoon and returning on the Thursday afternoon I think

Simon had responsibility for the float of French Franc whilst they were away and when they returned he gave me all the receipts and everything seemed to be in order

During the stock take Simon did work one Saturday over at the warehouse in Sudbury, Suffolk.

I think that is one of the only occasions he worked a weekend although he could of come in on other occasions that I wasn’t aware of.

All of the managers had keys to the premises and could have let him in as did Stephanie Bonn (sic)

We had a dress code at work which was that the first three days of the week we wore smart clothes, suits etc and then the last two days of the week we wore casual clothes and could wear jeans etc on the Friday

…Simon was made redundant and he left the company in January 2002

As I have said Simon was a difficult character to read, I don’t think from what he said that he got on with his dad he thought he was a bit strict and didn’t seem to go out of his way to help Simon when he had monetary problems.

He did as I have said seem quite close to his mum but had nothing nasty to say about her. He did say he had a brother

His relationship with Stephanie Bonn (sic) I think was very on/off and I would say from what I know of her that she was probably quite demanding in a relationship

Looking back his work did start to suffer in November/December 2001 when his relationship with Stephanie Bonn started to break up, his work wasn’t as good as it had been previously

I also found that he had a hot-mail address with MSN.Co.UK so he could get E-Mail messages for himself from any computer linked to the internet which the company computer was. He also had the MSN Messenger facility

Its possible he and Stephanie Bonn may have used the hot-mail system to communicate at work as they had been using the internal E-Mail system and we had become aware that they were using that when they should have been working, they also became aware that we knew what they were doing so they may have used the hot-mail system as we were not able to monitor that

I did see some of the E-mails they were sending each other on the company systems which were really only the sort of romantic boyfriend/girlfriend type messages
Excerpts from police witness statement of Simon Hall’s line manager from State Chemicals dated 13th September 2002

During Simon Hall’s first police interview, following his arrest, he initially gave them the impression Stephanie Bon had been his girlfriend, as can be seen from the following extract; (Page 30 1st Record of interview)

Dc 1023 How long have you known Phoebe
SJH Since about December time
Dc 1023 December and when did you start going out together
SJH January
Dc 1023 January. Any previous girlfriends that you’ve had before Phoebe at all?
SJH Yes. A girl called Stephanie who worked at State Chemical
Dc 1023 Right. What’s her last name
SJH Bon. B-O-N, she’s French
Dc 1023 Stephanie Bon, French?
SJH Yes
Dc 1023 Right. Anybody else?
SJH Before that would be Zoe

But by Simon Hall’s 3rd interview, on the same day, Stephanie Bon had gone from being his girlfrien to being his friend (Pages 25 and 26 Record of interview);

Dc 1023 OK. I’d just like to go on to a young lady you mentioned called Stephanie BON
SJH Yes
Dc 1023 When did you meet her?
SJH What for the first time?
Dc 1023 Mmm
SJH That was when I was interviewed for the job at State Chemicals
Dc 1023 Right OK. And was it a relationship friend or was it more than that?
SJH It was friends. It was friends, she wanted a little bit more but I wasn’t, I’d just split up with the other girl and I wasn’t
Dc 1023 Oh yes,, which was Zoe yes?
SJH Yes, really like that
Dc 1023 So it was nothing more than friends with Stephanie?
SJH We were closer than friends, but for everyone (inaudible)
Dc 1023 To put it bluntly ’occasional’
SJH Yes

However Stephanie Bon gave police a different impression, she stated:

I am the above named person and live at the address detailed overleaf with my brother Olivier Bon, originally from France, I moved to England about ten years ago.

Spending my first few years in London, I then moved to Colchester, and have lived at my present address for the last two years

..prior to this I worked for ‘State Industrial Products’ in East Hill, Colchester.

Whilst working as the personal assistant for the directors of the company, I first met Simon Hall

Around August or September 2001, Simon joined the company.

I remember seeing him walk into the office and immediately thought he was very good looking.

Initially we did not have much contact, as he worked upstairs and I was downstairs, but after a short time got talking during our breaks.

One of my bosses had informed me Simon could do sign language, this was also one of my interests having learnt it two or three years ago and also spent some time voluntarily helping at a school for the deaf

During our first meeting we just seemed to click.

I found it easy to talk to Simon and we got on well.

From then on we would often meet up during the day.

Both being smokers, Simon would often phone or message me on the computer to meet him for a cigarette break

During our chats, Simon appeared very open and honest.

He told me how he had been adopted, and the fact that he didn’t want to contact his real parents.

We discussed all sorts of topics, and Simon often told me how he was having problems with his relationship which at the time was to a girl called Zoe

If I would describe Simon in one word, it would be ’Lad’.

He was young, good looking and intelligent, and I believed that Zoe wanted more than Simon could give.

They often had arguments over the phone, if Simon was late or had not called her

At this time I was seeing a colleague from my office. Simon and my relationship was purely as friends.

He made me laugh and we both found it easy to chat to each other, although I would agree that we did flirt with each other too

Gradually we spent more and more time together; cigarette breaks, lunch breaks and sometimes after work.

Both working for the company we were insured to drive the company cars.

I had not passed my test and was having difficulties with my instructor, so Simon offered to give me some driving lessons.

I remember he originally had a Volkswagen Golf, which he sold.

He then got a company white Saxo car, which we both drove.

Simon used to encourage me to drive and we would go out at lunch times, or after work when I would drive him back to my house.

Simon was a very patient teacher, and never once lost his temper.

I also remember Simon buying a black Audi, although I think he had problems with thar car too, and didn’t drive it much

Around the end of September 2001, Simon informed me that Zoe and him, had broken up.

I was not surprised as Simon had not been happy for a while, and Zoe was always checking up on him.

Following their break up, Simon told me that Zoe had threatened to burn his clothes.

I don’t know if she ever did, but I believe he had problems and couldn’t get them back.

Zoe’s brother also threatened Simon, which really annoyed him, although on my advise he did not get involved and just let it go

Simon then moved back to his parents house in Snowcroft, Capel St Mary.

We were still really good friends at this time.

His mum helped him out and ordered a number of items of clothing from her catalogue, as he still had not got any clothes back from Zoe

Around October 2001, Simon and I became an item.

He used to stay at my house in Colchester, regularly, as it was so much more convenient for work.

Over time he left various items at my house, so he (sic) changes of clothes and wash things.

I would describe our relationship as generally good, we did argue occasionally, but nothing significant.

Simon was a kind and funny person and hated arguing

After a few weeks of being together, Simon introduced me to his parents Lynn and Phil. Lynn was really friendly, and it was obvious she thought highly of Simon.

Phil always chatted to me too, I think they saw something quite serious in me and we all got on so well

Simon appeared to get on particularly well with him mum, and I think he desperately wanted to settle down so his dad would think higher or him, although that was not his nature.

Simon’s older brother Shaun, seemed very settled.

He lived with his girlfriend and their child and also seemed to get on better with Phil.

I think Simon thought that if he could settle down and start a family, his dad would think him more responsible and therefore perhaps their relationship would improve

I would describe Simon as very emotional.

He was sensitive and did not like to hurt people.

Although his youth shone through and he would regularly let me down, by being late, always apologising afterwards.

I would say he was in touch with his emotions, and was openly affectionate, often telling his mum that he loved her.

Simon was also very intelligent and capable when he applied himself

On Saturday the 15th of December 2001 I remember being at home in Colchester with my brother and old flat mate, Lionel *****, who lived at the house for a year.

We remained in all night and I clearly remember this time, as I was meant to be going to a family meal the following day. On the Sunday Simon was off for a meal with relatives and asked me to go along as well.

I instantly agreed, looking forward to meeting the rest of the family but, unfortunately Simon did not get around to asking his mum until it was too late.

By the time Simon asked Lynne, there was not enough room at the table and I was unable to go along

This had annoyed me and I remember questioning whether the relationship was worth continuing with.

I believe Simon said he was going out with some friends on the Saturday night, although I am not sure
Excerpts from first part of Stephanie Bon’s police witness statement dated 4th September 2002

However the relationship between Stephanie Bon and Simon Hall did continue.

Link to Part 9a here

Killer Simon Hall: Phil Hall, Double Binds, Diversionary Tactics, New Black Office Shoes & Attempting To Pervert The Course Of Justice – Part 8 ©️

Double Binds

The double bind is a dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more reciprocally conflicting messages. Double binds are often utilised as a form of control without open coercion

Phil Hall used double binds when giving evidence to Suffolk police.

His first statement, which he made 4 days after Joan Albert’s murder, read as follows;

We have lived at our present address for about 20 years

During the past 2 years my wife has become quote involved with an elderly lady called Joan Albert, who lived on Boydland, Capel St Mary.

My wife would call upon Mrs Albert on a regular basis basically to oversee her welfare. She would often help out and walk Mrs Albert’s dog

I didn’t really have too much to do with Mrs Albert myself, but if I saw her I would engage into conversation with her, this mainly covered her dog’s welfare and other general topics

Mrs Albert would ring us about 2-3 times a week, if I picked the telephone up I would normally pass it directly to my wife

In my opinion I felt Mrs Albert was quite lonely and that was the reason for her to call us on a regular basis.

She was quite frail and became quite concerned about her dog ’Rusty’ (sic) ill health. I was led to believe she herself had problems with her heart and her leg. I also knew that she had recently been to hospital about a hernia in her abdomen

Mrs Albert never really spoke to me about her own family, to me, this was mainly spoken about to my wife

The last time I recall going to Mrs Albert actual home address was about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I either drove or walked to her home, I didn’t knock on the door as I was only dropping off an envelope containing gas canisters for her hair curlers.

I opened the letterbox and just pushed them through. Mrs Albert did not come to the door. I believe ’Rusty’ the dog was sitting on the window seat on the hallway. Fortunately I didn’t disturb the dog

Around 9.15pm on Saturday 15th December 2001, I was at home when I received a telephone call from Mrs Albert.

She was ringing to check on my wife’s welfare as she had come down with a bad cold. She also stated that ’Rusty’ was missing her friend, this was her usual way of being friendly.

I knew my wife couldn’t come to the phone as she was in bed unwell, so I carried on my conversation with her.

Mrs Albert explained to me someone had taken ’Rusty’ for a walk that afternoon but he had collapsed and had to be carried home.

She was obviously distressed and concerned about her dog

She went on to say that she wouldn’t know what to do without her dog.

I tried to reassure her, but on the other hand being realistic, stating that ’Rusty’ was also an elderly dog.

So in an attempt to lighten the conversation I made a jovial comment and said ”What you need is a toy boy”.

She instantly laughed and stated she wasn’t into that sort of thing, but it would be nice if she could get dressed up, be taken out for the night, then taken home and dropped off and nothing else

We carried on the banter for a while about her ideal man, in her case it was Howard Keel from Dallas

The conversation ended, Mrs Albert was fairly happy and it had cheered her up, we said our goodbyes and I told her I would tell Lynn she had called

I believe the conversation lasted no more than 10 minutes.

On Sunday 16th December, my wife, son and myself went out for the day, we arrived home late evening, I noticed the Police ’Closed’ sign along Boydland, and having listened to our Answerphone messages we discovered that an incident occurred with Mrs Albert
Phil Hall’s police witness statement dated 20th December 2001

Phil Hall told police he didn’t have much to do with Mrs Albert and if he saw her he would talk to her mainly about her dogs welfare and other general topics.

Yet he also claimed to the police on the night before his adoptive son Simon Hall had murdered Joan Albert, Phil had spoken to her about a “toy boy” and that there had been “banter” between them.

None of which sounds plausible, and Joan Albert could obviously not verify what Phil Hall claimed to police, as he well knew.

Phil Hall’s 2nd and last statement was made on the day his adoptive son Simon was arrested, excerpts read;

We have two children Shaun who is 26 and Simon who is nearly 25

Both the boys are probably closer to their mother than they are me and would go to her with any problems they may have.

I should add that we have always been open and honest with them regarding the adoption

Since Simon left school I have found his to be better behaved and more balanced when in a stable relationship.

He is a likeable boy and makes friends easily.

Simon had one particularly bad patch in his life which probably lasted about a year.

That started when he left school things having got on top of him, he became more depressed after his ex girlfriend died of meningitis.

I think that incident affected him deeply and things became very difficult at home.

Simon was quite intelligent if he applied himself and passed gis driving test soon after his 17th birthday

I knew Mrs Albert through Lynne who had become very close to her.

I went to the house a few times without Lynne but only to put things through the letterbox, I never picked the dog up without Lynne

To my knowledge neither of the boys knew Joan Albert.

I don’t know if any of the boys spoke to her on the phone. I thought Joan was comfortable not rich.

I spoke to Lynne often about Mrs Albert but never neither of the boys although they may have been present when Lynne and I were talking.

I sometimes felt Lynne was being put on but never voiced my concerns

On the 15th December 2001 my wife was upstairs unwell in bed, I don’t know when Simon left the house or even if I saw him at all that day.

I do not know what he was wearing that day at all

I recall that Lynne had asked Simon to make sure he was back in time to leave for Stoke Rochford in Lincolnshire where we had a family do.

I think we left about 8.30am on the Sunday. I went to bed quite late and apart from the phone call off of Mrs Albert at about 9.15am I don’t recall any other phone calls being received and I don’t recall making any.

I don’t recall what he was wearing that day but photographs were taken that day.

As far as I remember Simon was fairly quiet that morning but I think that was tiredness and he slept in the car.

I am willing to assist the police in this matter
Excerpts from Phil Hall’s police witness statement dated 25th July 2002

Phil Hall stated “I don’t know when Simon left the house or even if I saw him at all that day“ but he did “recall that Lynne had asked Simon to make sure he was back in time to leave for Stoke Rochford”.

The above is yet another example of Phil Hall’s double binds or conflicting statements, whereby one statement negates the other.

22nd December 2001: Killer Simon Hall Bought New Replacement Black Office Shoes

Below is a transcript of a typed note contained within the legal notes relating to Phil Hall’s shoes;

When Simon returned to live with his parents following the break-up of his relationship with Zoe ******* he had little or no clothes apart from the tee shirt, jeans and trainers which he stood up in. He had no decent shoes

As a consequence, he did borrow his father, Phil’s shoes in order to have decent shoes to wear when going out or when going for job interviews

Simon takes a size 9 – 10. Phil takes a size 10.5 – 11

In December 2001 he was probably still borrowing decent shoes from his dad when not otherwise wearing his trainers or brown boots.

As far as Lynne can remember, Simon did not get round to buying any decent shoes of his own until January 2002 when he would have had some Christmas money to spend

The police have not taken any of Phil’s shoes for cross matching or comparison
Notes re: shoes

In reality killer Simon Hall purchased a new pair of replacement black office shoes at Freeport shopping centre in Braintree on the 22nd December 2001, when he was with Donna (not her real name), as can be read in Part 5 by tapping on the button below;

The Missing Black “Larey or Loud” Shirt With “Red Splashes Over It” Evidenced By A Photograph – PART 5

He had disposed of the shoes he was wearing when he had committed his murder on the 17th of December and had apparently put them in an industrial waste bin near to where he worked at State Chemical’s in Colchester, Essex.

He used the excuse to drive to work on the Monday morning to speak to his line manager to request some time off work in order to dispose of his clothing, shoes and black leather jacket so that these items would be as far away from Capel St Mary as possible.

And the little or no clothes comment was another exaggeration.

Whilst killer Simon Hall may have borrowed his adoptive father Phil Hall’s shoes in the past, he was not wearing Phil’s shoes when he murdered Joan Albert.

Therefore there would have been no point taking any of Phil’s shoes for cross matching or comparison as this was another of the Hall families distraction tactics, attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The Audi motor vehicle Simon Hall viewed and paid for on Wednesday the 12th December 2001 when he was with his girlfriend Stephanie Bon, and picked up on the morning of Saturday the 15th December went on to develop problems.

In a further statement Simon Hall said;

I make this short statement by way of commentary on the witness evidence set out in the bundle of statements served under the heading ’Notice of Further Evidence’ with correspondence received from the Crown Prosecution Service dated 10th October 2002.

I brought that motor vehicle on the 12th December 2001

This was a Wednesday. I paid £450 cash.

Stephanie Bon was with me.

I had the car no more than a week when the gearbox fell out and the exhaust blew a hole.

I telephoned the garage and was told to bring the car back for a refund.

As a consequence I hired a trailer to return to the garage with the car I believe on or about the 29th December

The trailer was hired through Local Tool Hire (Ipswich) Ltd.

I note that one of my phone calls to them is set out in the phone records produced in this further evidence bundle by way of an exhibit to the Crown witness Andrew ******* Cadman

When I arrived at the garage with the car there was no one there

I had a wasted journey and subsequently telephoned the garage owner again.

He denied ever saying that he would be there to receive the car back.

He refused to give me a refund, told me I had bought the car as seen and it was tough luck if there happened to be problems with it

I believe my father tried to help me resolve the matter by speaking to the garage owner at least once if not twice and Court action would have been mentioned by my father of no satisfactory resolution could be reached

After my father spoke to the garage owner I telephoned them again and asked them if I was going to have to take this matter to Court.

It was at that point he drew a cheque on the company ‘Havertyre’ for £200 to settle the matter

In so far as Lee *********’s statement is concerned it is highly accurate given that my purchase of the vehicle was on Wednesday 12th December, an auction day when Lee ********* believes that he was in attendance at the garage.

The only error appears to be in his recollection of when I actually completed the purchase, he believing it to have happened by my collecting the car the following Saturday 15th December.

This is not true.

I paid for the car having decided to buy it there and then and was given a note from the garage owner Peter ******** regarding the tax of the vehicle all on the 12th December

I note the documentation the garage would otherwise have held in relation to the transaction has been lost in a burglary

Witness: ********, Peter James

This is the garage proprietor with whom I had most of the telephone calls hassling to get a partial refund owning to the defects in the vehicle.

He says that I brought it on the 15th December.

In this regard his colleague, Lee *********’s recollection is better and more accurate.

The purchase was made and completed on the 12th December.

In most respects his statement is reasonably accurate
Excerpts from Simon Hall’s October 2002 statement

According To Lynne Hall, Her Husband Phil Wanted To Strip DS Lambert Of His Medal

It was announced in March 2007 under the header Leading detective to retire that detective superintendent Roy Lambert, who headed up the investigation into Joan Albert’s murder, was set to retire.

Lynne Hall would go on to claim her husband Phil Hall “wanted to strip DS Lambert of his medal”.

The news article stated;

In March 1981, then aged 30 and working as a detective sergeant, he was confronted by a criminal armed with a sawn-off shotgun.

The gunman shot at Mr Lambert and another detective, both of whom were unarmed and only around 15 feet away.

Mr Lambert was later presented with the Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct and was praised for his “very gallant action in the line of duty”
Evening Star article headed Leading detective to retire dated 22nd March 2007

Following the criminal cases review commision’s 14th October 2009 announcement they were referring Simon Hall’s murder conviction to the court of appeal, Phil Hall made a public statement;

We are delighted, but at the moment I am somewhere between elation and shock.

We knew the commission were being very, very thorough and would not expect it to be anything less

This is evidence to us, yet again, that Simon is where he should not be
Excerpts from an Evening star article headed Simon Hall to get new appeal over murder dated 14th October 2009

Category: Lynne Hall

Killer Simon Hall: Secret Murder Confession(s) – Part 19i ©️

Bristol University’s ‘Post Conviction Activist’ Michael Naughton: Facilitating and ’Empowering’ Psychopathic Killers (Part 10)

Lynne Hall’s Self Serving Lies

The Evidence Tells A Different Story

Link to Part 19j here

Killer Simon Hall: Did Lynne Hall Not Approve Of Stephanie Bon? – Part 19f©️

Bristol University’s ‘Post Conviction Activist’ Michael Naughton: Facilitating and ’Empowering’ Psychopathic Killers (Part 7)

Did Stephanie Bon Loan Simon Hall Money

Why Didn’t Simon Hall Telephone Stephanie Bon Until Monday?

When Exactly In December Were Simon Hall’s Clothes Predominantly At Snowcroft & Why?

Link to Part 19g here

Killer Simon Hall: More Questions For Stephanie Bon & Lynne & Phil Hall – Part 19d©️

Bristol University’s ‘Post Conviction Activist’ Michael Naughton: Facilitating and ’Empowering’ Psychopathic Killers (Part 5)

Where Did Simon Hall Sleep On Friday 14th December 2001?

Christmas Fairy Lights

Argument(s) Over Christmas Meal At Stoke Rochford

Link to Part 19e here

Killer Simon Hall: Shaun Hall: “It’s Family And It’s Personal”- Part 11©️

Link to Part 11a here

Jamie Barker & The CCRC – Part 10b©️

Link to Part 11 here

When The Mask Begins To Slip – Part 10a©️

Link to Part 10b here

The Zenith Windows Burglary ’Secret’- Part 10©️

Link to Part 10a here

Killer Simon Hall: The “Affair”, Ghosting & Reinvention of Girlfriend Stephanie Bon, What Happened On Friday The 14th & The Christmas Meal At Stoke Rochford – Part 9a©️

What Happened On Friday The 14th Of December

Link to Part 9c ’The ‘Affair’, Ghosting & Reinvention of Stephanie Bon’ here

Killer Simon Hall: The “Affair”, Ghosting & Reinvention of Girlfriend Stephanie Bon, The Key To Snowcroft & The Bonfire Night Incident – Part 9©️

Covering Up For A Killer

No Mention Of Girlfriend Stephanie Bon

The Abuse Of Zoe

Link to Part 9a here

Killer Simon Hall: Phil Hall, Double Binds, Diversionary Tactics, New Black Office Shoes & Attempting To Pervert The Course Of Justice – Part 8 ©️

Double Binds

22nd December 2001: Killer Simon Hall Bought New Replacement Black Office Shoes

According To Lynne Hall, Her Husband Phil Wanted To Strip DS Lambert Of His Medal

Link to Part 9 here