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MUM-OF-TWO Patricia Hall vanished without a trace after a bitter row with her husband 33 years ago.

Patricia, who was 39 at the time, became the victim of a cold case when she disappeared from her semi-detached home in the suburb of Pudsey, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of January 27, 1992.

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It has been 33 years since Patricia Hall’s disappearance after a row with her husband Keith, her family is still seeking answers[/caption]

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Patricia and Keith on their wedding day in 1982[/caption]

Shockingly, the missing woman’s spouse Keith confessed to a covert cop that he had “strangled” her and dumped the body.

In another bizarre twist, a trial judge would not allow a secret recording of his confession to be used as court evidence after he was cleared of any crime.

Keith was found not guilty by the jury but the judge of the case made the surprise decision of allowing Keith’s confession to be aired publicly.

Following the not-guilty verdict, the judge decided to make the revelation public.

Now, The Sun can reveal that West Yorkshire Police have opened a cold case review in a bid to discover what happened to Patricia.

This second look at Patricia’s disappearance is, like all cold case reviews, not a reinvestigation.

It is understood that detectives are going over witness statements taken at the time, and liaising with forensic scientists to discover if improved technology can unearth some fresh clues.

A case becomes cold when all viable leads have been exhausted and the senior investigating officer considers nothing further can be done.

“Our Major Investigation Review Team is currently conducting a ‘cold case’ review into the disappearance of Patricia Hall, which is a process that we carry out periodically as standard procedure for unsolved cases,” Assistant Chief Constable Pat Twiggs, West Yorkshire Police lead for Specialist Crime and Criminal Justice, said.

“That review is likely to conclude in the next few months.

“We are maintaining contact with Patricia’s family and doing everything we can to support them and keep them informed, and we would still welcome any new information that could assist in getting her family the answers they need.”

The case has been the subject of media attention, including the Amazon Prime documentary “The Confession,” which explores the circumstances surrounding Patricia’s disappearance.

SISTER’S AGONY

Patricia’s younger sister, Christine Weatherhead — who believes her sibling is dead — has welcomed news the case will be re-examined.

The 63-year-old, who helps husband Robert on their North Yorkshire farm, : “I want to get justice for Pat before I die.

“I cannot accept that she remains a missing person when she has never contacted me or her lads, who she adored, and has never touched her bank account or passport. Nothing.

“Only a fool would believe she was still alive, so for me it is important to have on record how she died and who was responsible for that.

“Without a doubt, Pat’s disappearance has taken its toll emotionally and mentally on me. But while I can keep finding the strength to fight on, I will, for Pat.”

Former nurse Christine told how, once a week, she would meet Patricia in Leeds for a catch up with their brother, Brian, over a cuppa.

The Saturday before, she and her children had spent the day at Christine’s farm with her family.

Christine said: “She told me she was planning to start a new life with the lads in Scotland, one of her favourite places.

“She had decided to divorce Keith due to his volatile temper.

“She was happy and I just thank God that is my final memory of her.”

Keith has said that on the evening of January 26, Patricia told him she wanted a divorce.

He feared losing half their home, his sons and his grocery business.

We are maintaining contact with Patricia’s family and doing everything we can to support them and keep them informed, and we would still welcome any new information that could assist in getting her family the answers they need

Assistant Chief Constable Pat TwiggsWest Yorkshire Police lead for Specialist Crime and Criminal Justice

The sisters were due to meet on January 28, but Christine rang Patricia that morning to cancel their regular get-together.

She said: “I left a message but Pat, unusually, never called me back. Keith rang me that evening and told me she had left their home the day before and he did not know where she was.

“I asked if he’d reported her missing to the police, but he hadn’t.

“I knew Pat would never leave her boys with him, so my brothers and I were suspicious from the start.

“A police officer cousin reported her missing the next day.”

The family car, a blue Ford Sierra, was found abandoned a mile from her home.

 A witness told officers that, on the night Patricia disappeared, he saw a man lifting something into or out of the car on the same road, climb over a fence into a field and walk towards a nearby pond.

Police were convinced that man was Keith Hall.

Months earlier, Christine had had a heartbreaking chat with Patricia.

She recalled: “She said, ‘If anything happens to me, will you look after the boys?’.

“I said of course, and thought she meant anything happening due to the depression she had previously suffered — but had recovered from.

“How those words haunt me to this day.”

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Patricia’s younger sister, Christine Weatherhead — who believes her sibling is dead — has welcomed news the case will be re-examined[/caption]

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Keith Hall made a chilling confession to an undercover policewoman about his missing wife[/caption]

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Keith Hall beams as he is driven away from Leeds Crown Court after he was acquitted of murdering his wife Patricia in 1994[/caption]

THE inside of a pink cocaine lab allegedly run by gangster John Gilligan in his Spanish home has been revealed by cops.

Police seized up to €8million worth of drugs when they raided the Costa Blanca pad in December 18, 2024.

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Heavily-armed officers used ­battering rams to smash into the property where the secret Breaking Bad-style lab was discovered.

And outside the gaff, cops found a weapon wrapped in plastic and stashed in a bricked-up hideaway

Thug Gilligan, 72, was arrested and remanded in prison.

Spanish police released the first images of the operation leading to his takedown.

And detectives accused the Dublin mobster of flooding the region’s streets with illegal narcotics — including toxic pink cocaine — with the help of a North Macedonia criminal gang he allegedly led.

Tragic One Direction singer Liam Payne had pink cocaine in his ­system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last year.

The deadly substance — also known as tusi — is a mix of several drugs including meth, ­ketamine, MDMA and others.

Gilligan’s latest arrest came 15 months after he admitted running
a Spain-to-Ireland cannabis and sleeping pill smuggling ring.

He also copped to the illegal ­possession of a firearm after a gun initially linked to crime reporter Veronica Guerin’s murder was found buried in his back garden near the Spanish holiday resort of Torrevieja in October 2020.

However, Gilligan agreed a plea bargain deal in September 2023 with prosecutors as his trial got underway and was handed a ­suspended 22-month jail sentence.

Detectives specialising in fighting organised crime revealed they detected an “increase” in the brute’s criminal activity just nine months after he avoided prison.

And they went public for the first time on the huge scale of his latest alleged drugs trafficking op.

Sources revealed most of the ­narcotics seized — including more than 16kg of pink cocaine — was discovered at the clandestine drugs lab Gilligan was “running”.

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They put a price tag on their street value of between €4million and €8million after the Operation Overlord bust last month.

Officers from elite Spanish police anti-drug units, including one based in the province of Murcia, were involved in the operation.

‘IRISH MAFIA’

The National Police in Murcia issued their first statement on Gilligan’s arrest.

The pint-sized yob wasn’t named but was described as a member of the “Irish mafia”.

A spokesman said: “The National Police has dismantled a synthetic drugs lab. Nine people have been arrested including the leader of the criminal organisation, a man belonging to the Irish mafia who had expanded his criminal activities to several parts of the eastern Spanish coast and continually changed home between the provinces of Murcia and Alicante to hinder his localisation.

“More than 16 kilos of tusi, or pink cocaine have been seized along with two-and-a- half kilos of cocaine, 540 litres of precursors for synthetic drugs, and a 75-litre drum of methylamine, which is a key precursor in the manufacture of methamphetamines.

“Officers have also confiscated different instruments and machinery needed to produce drugs, as well as a revolver hidden among bricks.”

JOINT OP

The UK’s National Crime Agency was also involved in taking down Dublin mobster Gilligan.

Spanish cops added: “Thanks to the joint operation with the NCA, a family crime clan of Macedonian origin, based in the Murcian village of La Alberca, was identified. They allegedly operated under the orders of the Irish criminal with the aim of making and distributing ­different types of drugs in the region on a regular basis.

“The police investigation led to the arrest of the alleged leader at a villa in Orihuela Costa on December 18 last year. A clandestine lab had been set up inside to make and adulterate different types of drugs, mainly the narcotic known as tusi, or pink cocaine.

“An important increase in the consumption of this drug had been detected at nightspots and other ‘black spots’ in the city of Murcia.

“Two more raids were subsequently carried out in La Alberca at residential properties belonging to the organisation’s Macedonian clan where a significant amount of drugs of the same type as those found at the dismantled clandestine lab were also seized.

“With the substances seized in the lab it’s estimated the criminal gang could have produced between 300 and 600 kilograms of drugs.”

BEHIND BARS

Gilligan has been locked up at Fontcalent Prison, in Alicante, after his latest arrest, with the hood spending Christmas behind bars.

The two-bed pad near Torrevieja where police discovered the drugs laboratory reportedly belonged to Gilligan’s ex Sharon Oliver.

The British national, 61, is not among the nine people arrested in the latest operation and is said to have been unaware of Gilligan’s alleged drug activities.

She was cleared in September 2023 of two drug charges she was facing, along with her ex-boyfriend, over their October 2020 arrest.

Sharon declined to make the plea bargain deal Gilligan and seven other defendants had struck with Spanish prosecutors.

They were demanding a six-year prison sentence for the gangster’s girlfriend if found guilty of two charges — trafficking cannabis as well as supplying and exporting medicines without permission.

Sharon denied any knowledge of the drugs smuggling operation her partner confessed to masterminding a day before her one-day trial began 15 months ago and was acquitted of the two raps.

Gilligan, who said at the time he was planning to quit Spain, was ordered to pay fines of just over €14,000 on top of his 22-month suspended prison sentence.

GUN FIND

Prosecutors had wanted him to be jailed for more than eight years if convicted of four charges he was originally due to be tried on.

The seven other men accused alongside him in September 2023 included his son Darren, 47, and 51-year-old playboy pal ‘Fat’ Tony Armstrong.

They were all given suspended 18-month sentences.

The Colt Python revolver found in his back garden during his 2020 arrest was the same type as that used to kill Sunday Independent journalist Veronica Guerin.

The crime reporter was shot dead, aged 36, at a red traffic light on the Naas dual carriageway near Newlands Cross on the outskirts of Dublin on June 26, 1996.

She was shot by one of two men on a motorbike, with the gun never found.

Police carried out tests to check whether the weapon seized in the raid on Gilligan’s gaff was used in her murder.

However, it was subsequently found not to be the same weapon used in Veronica’s murder.

Gilligan was tried and acquitted of masterminding her murder in 2001.

However, he was convicted of importing two tons of cannabis resin and ­sentenced to 28 years in prison, reduced to 20 on appeal.

Ex-friend Brian ‘Tosser’ Meehan was convicted of her murder.

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