Family of Julie Minogue, Milford woman killed with an ax, to sue city

MILFORD – The family of a Milford woman killed in a December ax attack plans to sue the city so as not to prevent her “gruesome and premeditated” death.

In letters sent on behalf of the father of 40-year-old Julie Minogue and one of her three sons, their lawyer noted that she reached out to police several times in the weeks before her death about harassment by Ewen Dewitt, who police say killed her in her Salem Walk condo in front of the couple’s 3-year-old boy, while another son of Minogue’s was also home.

Minogue “feared for her life” due to the harassment, the lawyer, Michael Rosnick, wrote in a Feb. 28 notice announcing the family’s intention to file a lawsuit against the city, police department, and an officer who had been assigned to investigate her case.

The alleged harassment included more than 200 text messages Dewitt had sent to Minogue in the weeks before the killing – while charges were still pending against him in connection with a 2019 incident during which he had drunkenly thrown a playpen at her head, causing a wound requiring five staples to close.