GUILTY UK - Two women and 2 children brutally murdered, Clydach, Swansea, 27 June 1999

[wfgodot]

An interesting read:

Who REALLY murdered married WPC's lesbian lover? Disturbing questions 12
years after man was given four life sentences amid shocking police cover-up

⁍ South Wales's biggest ever mass murder was grotesquely savage
⁍ Killer smashed fibreglass pole into 80-year-old invalid Doris Dawson's face
⁍ Then sadistically murdered daughter Mandy Power and her daughters - Katie, ten and Emily, eight
⁍ Murder shocked the village of Clydach, near Swansea, in June 1999 and made national headlines
⁍ Emerged that Mandy's bisexual lover was a woman police sergeant who was married to another male police officer
⁍ And he was the identical twin brother of a local police inspector who had gone on a mysterious 'lone patrol' on the night
⁍ He was also the first senior police officer at the scene the following day
⁍ Sensationally, all three police officers were arrested and interviewed
⁍ But none were charged and it was builder David Morris who was handed four life sentences for the killings
⁍ He will almost certainly never be freed because he protests his innocence
⁍ Now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal extraordinary evidence that casts grave doubt on his conviction

 

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BBC account from 2006 at the link:

Morris guilty of Clydach murders
David Morris has been found guilty for the second time of beating to death
four members of the same family at their Clydach home seven years ago.

 

[wfgodot]

From The Mail on Sunday article linked above:

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First, the killer entered his victims’ home, went upstairs and smashed a heavy fibreglass pole repeatedly into the face of 80-year-old invalid grandmother Doris Dawson, rendering her utterly unrecognisable. And then he waited.

Just before midnight, Doris’s daughter Mandy Power arrived at the house with her children, Katie, ten, and Emily, eight. The murderer leapt upon all three, killing them in identical, sadistic fashion.

In a perverted twist, he then placed a sex device inside Mandy’s lifeless body. He set a fire to incinerate his traces, waiting for it to take hold. When it didn’t, he calmly started three further blazes.

The killings made national headlines and convulsed the village of Clydach, near Swansea – and not just for their macabre brutality....
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Mail on Sunday:

MoS exposé sparks new miscarriage of justice probe into brutal
killing of WPC's lesbian lover after new witnesses come forward

• David Morris is serving four life sentences for killing four people
• The criminal review of his case has been given 'priority one' status
• Several new witnesses have come forward since the MoS story

 

[Llew101]

Any people from the UK got an opinion on this? Locally this is seen as a very dodgy case indeed.

 

[Blanche]

The first trial verdict was quashed quite rightly due to a "conflict of interest" of his solicitor who should never have been acting for him. The second verdict - I would be interested to see what was put forward as a defence? did they run with pointing the finger at other suspects?

part of his gold chain was found on the floor in the bedroom of the grandmother, he admits being in the house and having sex with the mother and that is why he says part of his chain was there. To me that doesn't add up, firstly he lied about that chain being his apparently due to the fact he didn't want his girlfriend finding out he had sex with the mother, i don't buy that. Plus why was it found broken and covered in blood in the grandma's bedroom and not the mothers? the grandma was disabled , no way they would have been having sex in her room with her there so how did his chain get in that room? the prosecution say because he was murdering the grandmother in that room she was attacked and died in her bed , it came off during that attack. Which is the more likely explanation?

 

[GhostReyna]

The murders took place at 9 Kelvin Road, Clydach, in the early hours of June 27, 1999. Mandy Power, aged 34, her invalid mother, Doris Dawson, and her two children, Katie and Emily, aged ten and eight, were killed with a blunt instrument, wielded with such force that it inflicted injuries far greater than those necessary to cause death. Whoever was responsible sought to destroy the evidence by trying to burn the house down, but firemen extinguished the blaze before total destruction ensued.

It took seven years before someone was convicted for the crimes—and then, it was possibly the wrong man. At the least, his guilt was not proved beyond reasonable doubt, and Morris lays bare a story of police corruption and incompetence, lawyerly dishonesty, and judicial unfairness—liberally assisted by local prejudice and a willingness to lie that is, as the outdated saying goes, “un-British.” The murderer either had a key, or was let in, to the house, suggesting that he was well-known at least to Mandy Power, who, it turned out, was well-known to many locals.



Murder Most Foul

 

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The murders took place at 9 Kelvin Road, Clydach, in the early hours of June 27, 1999. Mandy Power, aged 34, her invalid mother, Doris Dawson, and her two children, Katie and Emily, aged ten and eight, were killed with a blunt instrument, wielded with such force that it inflicted injuries far greater than those necessary to cause death. Whoever was responsible sought to destroy the evidence by trying to burn the house down, but firemen extinguished the blaze before total destruction ensued.

It took seven years before someone was convicted for the crimes—and then, it was possibly the wrong man. At the least, his guilt was not proved beyond reasonable doubt, and Morris lays bare a story of police corruption and incompetence, lawyerly dishonesty, and judicial unfairness—liberally assisted by local prejudice and a willingness to lie that is, as the outdated saying goes, “un-British.” The murderer either had a key, or was let in, to the house, suggesting that he was well-known at least to Mandy Power, who, it turned out, was well-known to many locals.



Murder Most Foul

Where did this happen?

Consider clicking the word Report in your post, and asking a Moderator to add the location & date to the thread title.

JMHO

 

[GhostReyna]

Thank you!

 

[FOXINBOX]

Where was ex-husband in all of this?

 

[sl77]

This case deserves much more attention on here. Anyone reading this watch the BBC Wales documentary. Very interesting.