I knew they were stitching me up. I knew it straight away. A Killing in Tiger Bay II, victim
The Cardiff 5 have now been in custody for 444 days. ibid. caption
Basically, we was treated like animals, like slaves. ibid. victim
The prosecution had painted it very much as the five acting together. But it was very strange because you had the three being found guilty and the two being found not guilty. ibid. defence dude
The Lynette White murder trial was the longest in British legal history. ibid. caption
Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris are given life sentences. ibid.
Detective Chief Inspector John Williams retires days before the end of the trial. ibid.
Straight after sentencing the families start a campaign. ‘Free the Cardiff 3’ is headed by Malik Abdullahi and Lloyd Parris. A Killing in Tiger Bay, caption, BBC 2021
The campaign consumed me and Malik’s life totally. ibid. Lloyd
A year after the campaign is launched Reverend Al Sharpton joins a march from Butetown to Cardiff city centre. ibid. caption
The three Appeal Court judges consider the content of all nineteen tapes. ibid.
Short of physical violence it’s hard to conceive of a more hostile and intimidating approach by officers. ibid.
Three days later Gafoor is sentenced – 15 years after Lynette White was murdered. South Wales Police apologise to the Cardiff 5. ibid. caption
Angela Psaila, Leanne Vilday and Mark Grommek were all jailed for 18 months. During sentencing the Judge stated they were ‘seriously hounded, bullied, threatened, abused and manipulated by police’ and as a result felt compelled to agree to the false accounts suggested. ibid.
July 2011: Three years after the perjury trial the biggest police corruption trial in British history begins. 8 South Wales Police officers are charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. After four months the case against the police officers collapses when documents go missing. As a result there was never an opportunity to test the evidence in court. None of the officers were convicted of any offences. All eight officers walk free. ibid.
Two weeks later they find the documents. Am I mad? ibid. Michael Mansfield QC
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984: Pace. Catching Britain’s Killers: The Crimes that Changed Us III ***** BBC news
The police culture of a previous era persisted. ibid. BBC news
Four years after Pace, a case in Cardiff would publicly expose the dangers of a police service that still chased confessions. On Valentine’s Day 1988 20-year-old Lynette White was found stabbed to death in her flat in Butetown near the Cardiff docks. 10 months later her ex-partner Stephen Miller was arrested on suspicion of murder and questioned at Cardiff police station. After five days of interrogation he confessed to Lynette White’s murder … At his trial Miller was found guilty of murder along with two other men both implicated by his taped confession … ‘They’ve become known as the Cardiff 3: serving a prison sentence for life for a murder they say they didn’t commit.’ ibid. television news
‘Butetown, Cardiff: Lynette White was always on the embankment whatever the weather, whatever time of year it was.’ The Bay: The Murder of Lynette White, reporter, Channel 5 2022
20-year-old Lynette White was found brutally stabbed to death on St Valentine’s Day. Her mutilated body was discovered at this flat in the docks area of Cardiff. ibid.
After leaving school, Lynette left home aged 18 to live in the Butetown area of Cardiff. ibid. caption
Lynette had been living with her boyfriend Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller moved to Cardiff from London. ibid.
Someone who was seen in the street or in the area with blood on his hands distressed in James Street. ibid. rozzer
Four witnesses place five local Butetown men at the murder scene on the night in question. ibid. caption
They needed one of the five to confess. ibid. dude
On October 17th 1989 the trial of the Cardiff 5 begins at Swansea Crown Court. ibid. caption
No identification, no forensic, no DNA, nothing. ibid. accused victim
In a major breakthrough, eminent human rights barrister Michael Mansfield QC agrees to take on the case. ibid. caption
December 1992: The case goes to the Court of Appeal. ibid.
The Lord Chief Justice stopped the appeal once he heard the tapes. That was it. ibid. Michael Mansfield
In a major breakthrough the police now have the DNA profile of the killer. ibid.
A murder where the traces of the killer went undiscovered for over a decade … One of Britain’s most controversial cases. Cold Case Forensics: Lynette White ***** ITV 2023
The investigation into Lynette White’s murder was to be tainted of accusations of racism and corruption. Witnesses were bullied by police and a false confession led to one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history. A suspect in blood-stained clothes was seen near the flat was white; but all the men the police arrested were black. They were to become known by campaigners as the Cardiff 5. ibid.
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GALAN, ALFREDO: Evil Up Close TV - crimezzz online -
And when Spain sent its troops into a warzone it also introduced him to killing. Evil Up Close: Alfredo Galan: The Playing Card Killer, Crime Channel 2013
Galan aimed reprisals against anybody anywhere ... A serial killer. ibid.
He would emerge from shadows to shoot his six victims execution-style. ibid.
A Spanish serial murderer, nicknamed the ‘playing card killer’ because he left a card at the scene of his crimes, has received jail sentences totalling 142 years.
Former soldier Alfredo Galan was convicted of six murders and three attempted murders, court sources said on Wednesday.
Galan would greet his victims and ask them politely to kneel down before shooting them because ‘manners were the most important thing’, Spanish newspaper El Mundo quoted a policeman as saying during his trial.
The former soldier, who appeared to pick his victims at random in public places, withdrew an initial confession in which he had said he carried out the murders to show how easy it was.
Officials said at the time of the murders in 2003 that one man, whose body was found with an ace card by it, had been killed with a blow to the head.
However, local media reported that Galan, whom psychiatrists described as a ‘human predator’, shot all his victims at close range. crimezzz online article
GALANTE, CARMINE: Mafia’s Greatest Hits I II TV - Mafia Empire 2006 TV -
Carmine Galante was a mobster who frightened even the Mafia men. Even if he seemed old he was deadly. He had worked the mean streets for decades. At the age of sixty his career seemed finished. But from his prison cell he masterminded an astonishing comeback, and flooded New York’s streets with heroin. Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Carmine Galante: Men of Steel & Heroin, 2012
One of the most notorious Mob crimes ever ... One of the city’s biggest mobsters, Carmine Galante, was having lunch. And it was here that he was interrupted. ibid.
Carmine Galante’s career was built on heroin. ibid.