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Lynette White
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Wrongly accused who are still waiting for answers |
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Written by www.walesonline.co.uk
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Jul 3 2009 by Our Correspondent, Western Mail
TEN years ago Tony Rogers, then an Assistant Chief Constable of South Wales Police, established the country’s first unit to examine unsolved and unresolved cases. The Western Mail broke the story of the unit being set up, following pressure over a number of miscarriages of justice, such as the Cardiff Five, Jonathan Jones, the Gurnos Fire and the Cardiff Explosives Conspiracy. The case of the Newsagent Three was waiting in the wings and of course the Darvell Brothers and Mahmoud Mattan had also been cleared.
All of these defendants had either been acquitted or cleared on appeal. They were demanding answers and a public inquiry. The police responded with the unit, but it wasn’t just miscarriages of justice that were investigated; there were cases that had never resulted in arrests. In 2003 it made history twice. The first miscarriage of justice that it looked at was the Cardiff Five (many call it Cardiff Three, but John and Ronnie Actie were victims of that case as well as Yusef Abdullahi, Stephen Miller and Tony Paris). After four years and a superb investigation Jeffrey Gafoor became the first British murderer to be tied to his crime after a miscarriage of justice, but what about the rest of them?
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EU ruling on DNA poses a threat to cracking crimes |
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May 27 2009 by Our Correspondent, Western Mail
As the controversy over who should be included on a national DNA database continues, author Satish Sekar argues that a new EU ruling poses a threat to cracking unsolved crimes
Over 13 years ago – March 10, 1996 – the half-naked body of 34-year-old Karen Skipper was recovered from the River Ely in Cardiff.
Within five weeks, an innocent man – her estranged husband Philip – was charged with her murder and acquitted in 1997. He subsequently died in November 2004, the same year that crucial DNA profiles were obtained from crime scene samples.
Two years later, John Pope, the real murderer, was arrested on an unrelated matter for which he was not convicted.
His DNA profile was put on the National DNA Database and within a month the labourer, then 57, was identified as a prime suspect in the murder of Karen Skipper.
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Murder appeal in prostitute case |
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The cases of two of the three men jailed last November for the murder of the prostitute Lynette White have been referred to the Court of Appeal.
Yusef Abdullahi, aged 29, Tony Parris, aged 33, and Steve Miller, aged 24, known as the Cardiff Three , were convicted of murdering Ms White at a flat in Cardiff, on February 14, 1988. She had been stabbed and slashed many times.
A white man with blood-stains on him was reported near the scene early in the morning. Nine months later, eight people, seven of them black, were arrested. One of them, Steve Miller, from Brixton, south London, made a confession during his 19th interview with police, in which he implicated acquaintances. Five men were charged. Of these, two cousins, Ronald and John Actie, were acquitted after the trial in Swansea last year.
Now the cases of Mr Abdullahi and Mr Parris have been referred to the Court of Appeal. The application of Mr Miller, who was Ms White's pimp, has been turned down.
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New evidence grows for Cardiff Three |
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Written by Duncan Campbell and Satish Sekar
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The second of our series examines a community's concern over three men's convictions for the grisly murder of a prostitute
Duncan Campbell and Satish Sekar
The run-down flat in Bute Town, Cardiff, where prostitute Lynette White was stabbed to death on Valentine's Day 1988, has been repapered and recarpeted and is inhabited now by a relative of one of the men serving life for her murder.
For Carlton Queeley it is not a permanent home, just a sleeping-bag on a couch, but he plans to stay there until, he hopes, he has helped to prove the innocence of his cousin, Tony Parris, and the two other convicted men, Yusef Abdullahi and Steve Miller.
The case of the men, known as the Cardiff Three , has aroused strong emotions in the tightly-knit community. Now new evidence has emerged which their lawyers believe offers further grounds for appeal against their convictions.
Mr Abdullahi, aged 29, Mr Miller, aged 24, and Mr Parris, aged 33, were convicted of the murder of Ms White at Swansea last November after Britain's longest murder trial.
Ms White was a white prostitute who was about to give evidence for the prosecution in two trials. She was murdered in the early hours of February 14, 1988. At first the only evidence was that a dark-haired white man with blood-stained and cut hands had been seen in a distressed state near her flat shortly after her murder.
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