E-mail 'hoaxers' face charges
August 15, 2001
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The Hall's house was sealed off after Emma Hall was killed
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Gwent Police are charging three employees of a Cardiff-based research company with forgery after sending a hoax e-mail to a man who later killed his 12-year-old daughter.
Businessman Philip Andrew Hall who suffered from a psychiatric illness, stabbed his daughter Emma to death as she slept at their home at Whitelye in the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire.
![]() Emma Hall: Died hours after father had arrived home
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Hall was being treated for manic depression and schizophrenia when he stabbed his daughter Emma to death with a single knife wound in July last year.
At his trial last December he said he killed her because he believed she would be reincarnated.
He was cleared of murder by a jury at Swansea Crown Court on the grounds of insanity, but will be detained indefinitely in a secure institution.