The Cardiff Five

The Cardiff Five
Author: Satish Sekar
Publisher: Waterside Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1909976520

This fresh edition of Satish Sekar’s classic work brings events up to date as at 2017 and includes matters that the author was prevented from publishing sooner. Among other things it deals with the collapse of the 2011 trial of police officers and others concerning the original miscarriage of justice in this case and in a new Epilogue calls for a Truth and Justice Commission. The author shows how this extreme miscarriage of justice destroyed families, divided communities and undermined confidence in the criminal justice system. The book takes the reader from the sadistic killing of Lynette White in Cardiff in 1988, via the subsequent investigation and trial to the aftermath of the folding of the 2011 trial over ‘lost’ documents that later materialised. But above all it deals with the hard scientific facts of the first vindication case of the DNA-age.

The Cardiff Five

The Cardiff Five
Author: Peculiar Papers
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-08-12
Genre:
ISBN:

On Valentine's Day 1988, a young woman was found horribly murdered in her flat in Cardiff, Wales. Despite the evidence of a single white male criminal, somehow five black men were arrested and tried in the longest criminal trial in British history. Were the men convicted truly the killers? Or were the South Wales Police corrupt and desperate to rid the streets of petty criminals at the cost of letting a real murderer roam free? Peculiar Papers publishes short, succinct and unbiased accounts of interesting events in true crime, supernatural phenomena, extraordinary or forgotten lives, accidents, disasters and more.

Mouncher Investigation Report

Mouncher Investigation Report
Author: Richard Horwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: False imprisonment
ISBN: 9781474145053

On title page: Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 18 July 2017 for the ... Available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications Web ISBN=9781474145060

The Five

The Five
Author: Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2019
Genre: Murder victims
ISBN: 1328663817

Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.

The Dossier

The Dossier
Author: Michael O'Brien
Publisher: Seren
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 178172623X

The Dossier investigates fifteen cases of proven or alleged miscarriages of justice in south Wales between 1982 and 2016. In the first part of The Dossier Michael O'Brien presents new evidence concerning his own case, which further calls into question the actions of the police which led to his conviction. The second part of the book considers another fourteen cases for a variety of crimes including murder. These cases concern the convictions of twenty-three people, who between them have spent eighty years in prison. The earliest is Anthony Yellen, convicted of murder on a manufactured confession in 1983. The book includes the Welsh conspiracy trial, the case of the Darvell brothers in Swansea, the Cardiff Three, Jonathan Jones, the Merthyr arson case, and the Clydach murders.O'Brien calls into question methods of policing and a judicial system in which too little has changed over the past thirty years, and calls for a judicial inquiry to investigate the culture which has resulted in so many dubious and plainly wrongful convictions. No police officer has been brought to book for their part in these cases, despite the evidence produced for the convictions to be ruled unsafe. Some officers have been involved in more than one of the cases considered, and some have been promoted to senior levels in the force. Many are now retired and are no longer subject to police disciplinary procedures. How, asks O'Brien, could so many important cases have resulted in unsafe conviction, and what can be done to improve procedures in future?

Cardiff After Dark

Cardiff After Dark
Author: Maciej Dakowicz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012
Genre: Documentary photography
ISBN: 9780500544198

Cardiff After Dark is the first monograph by British-based Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz. Dakowicz spent five years photographing the nighttime revelries that take place in Cardiff over the weekend. Focused around a few pedestrianized streets in the city centre, Dakowicz's images capture nightlife fueled by alcohol and emotions. The arc of an evening's entertainment is captured in these candid photographs, which reveal fun and hilarity as well as fighting and drunken exhaustion. There are stag nights and hen parties, men dressed as superheroes and women dressed as Playboy bunnies, mountains of discarded chip wrappers, arrests by the police, and lots and lots of posing for photographs. Dakowicz's images, at times shocking or upsetting, form an important documentary photobook of British urban life in the early part of the 21st century.

Victorian Murders

Victorian Murders
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1445666316

This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

Murderers Or Martyrs

Murderers Or Martyrs
Author: George Skelly
Publisher: Waterside Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1904380808

A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice. Charged with the "Cranborne Road murder" of Wavertree widow Alice Rimmer, two Manchester youths were hastily condemned by a Liverpool jury on the police-orchestrated lies of a criminal and two malleable young prostitutes. George Skelly's detailed account of the warped trial, predictable appeal result courtesy of 'hanging judge' Lord Goddard and the whitewash secret inquiry will enrage all who believe in justice. And if the men's prison letters (including from the condemned cells) sometimes make you laugh, they will make you weep far longer. Following his masterful expose of injustice in the Cameo Cinema murder case in 1950s Liverpool described in his book The Cameo Conspiracy, George Skelly now reveals a second police conspiracy-two years later in the same city involving the same senior detective-which this time led to the execution of two young men. In 2011, faced with countless proven contradictions and errors plus substantial previously undisclosed evidence, the Criminal Cases Review Commission unbelievably side-stepped the opportunity to refer this gross injustice to the Court of Appeal. So until justice is finally done, Teddy Devlin and Alfie Burns still lie together beneath the staff car park at Walton Prison, their only trace a tiny plaque numbered 55. 'A very powerful case of a miscarriage of justice': Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith PC QC As featured in the Liverpool Echo. Author George Skelly is also the author of The Cameo Conspiracy (3rd edition Waterside Press, 2011) about an equally disturbing case where an innocent man was hanged in a famous miscarriage of justice.

The Giant and How He Humbugged America

The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545537754

When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the giant spreads like wildfire, and well over a thousand people come to view him in the first five days alone!Everyone has their own idea of his true origin: Is he an ancient member of the local Onandaga Indian tribe? Is he a biblical giant like Goliath? Soon the interests of world-renowned scientists and people from around the globe are piqued as arguments flare over who he is, where he came from, and if he is real--or just a hoax. In a riveting account of how the Cardiff Giant mystery snowballed into one of America’s biggest money-making spectacles--and scams--Jim Murphy masterfully explores the power of 19th-century media and the unexpected ripple effect that a single corrupt mastermind can produce when given a stage.