In December 1992 the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of Yusef Abdullahi, Steve Miller and Tony Paris - the Cardiff Three. Many declared the story over, but in many ways it was just beginning. The original defendants were undeniably innocent, so who really killed Lynette White? Several miscarriages of justice in Britain had been exposed since the quashing of the convictions of the Guildford Four in October 1989. After the convictions of the Cardiff were quashed many more appeals have succeeded. Until last year one thing remained constant. Not one of these cases had ever resulted in the conviction of the real killer after a successful appeal in Britain. Legal history would have to be made. Nevertheless, as far as I was concerned the quashing of the convictions of the Cardiff Three alone just wasn't enough. The real killer of Lynette White still had to be brought to justice.

The Crime & Investigation:

St. Valentine’s Day 1988 fell on a Saturday. In the small hours of Friday, as partiers reveled, the tragically short life of Lynette White came to a brutal end just yards away from the local nightclub, the Casablanca. Stabbed more than fifty times, Lynette's breasts repeatedly attacked and her throat had been slit from ear to ear. The killer had attempted to remove her head. This was then the most brutal murder in Welsh history. South Wales Police were under enormous pressure to solve this crime. Development of the docks area that would transform the landscape of the old seaport of Cardiff was temporarily halted in its tracks.

Thousands of statements were taken. Numerous leads were investigated, but weeks turned into months without sight or sound of a breakthrough. A very promising line of enquiry led nowhere as the prime suspect at the time – Mr. X, a white pedophile whose character traits were so similar to the likely characteristics of the murderer that Detective Inspector Graham Mouncher identified him as the prime suspect and had him put under surveillance – was eliminated by DNA profiling.