{"id":4153,"date":"2021-09-09T12:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1346684"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:24:32","slug":"what-happened-to-the-cardiff-five-where-the-subjects-of-bbc-twos-a-killing-in-tiger-bay-are-now","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-happened-to-the-cardiff-five-where-the-subjects-of-bbc-twos-a-killing-in-tiger-bay-are-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the Cardiff Five? Where the subjects of BBC Two\u2019s A Killing in Tiger Bay are now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The three-part documentary series chronicles a notorious miscarriage of justice. <\/p>

By Grace Henry\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 09 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The BBC is exploring one of Britain\u2019s longest-running murder trials \u2013 which saw five innocent men convicted of murder in 1988 \u2013\u00a0 in new documentary, A Killing in Tiger Bay.<\/p>\n

On Valentine\u2019s Day in 1988, dock worker Lynette White, a young woman from Cardiff, was murdered.<\/p>\n

In November later that year, police charged five Black and mixed-race men with White\u2019s murder, although none of the forensic evidence discovered at the crime scene could be linked to them. Three of the men were eventually found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

However, the convictions were ruled as unsafe and\u00a0quashed\u00a0by the\u00a0Court of Appeal\u00a0in 1992 after it was judged that the police investigating the murder had acted improperly.<\/p>\n

The three-part documentary, which kicks off on BBC Two on Thursday, 9th September, will look into the case, paying tribute to Lynette, while also exploring the miscarriage of justice against the five Butetown men who were accused of her murder.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything you need to know, including where the Cardiff Five are now.<\/p>\n

What happened to the Cardiff Five?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Lynette White<\/span><\/figcaption> BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

On 14th February 1988, Lynette White was murdered on James Street, which is now known as Cardiff Bay.<\/p>\n

South Wales Police issued a photofit image of a white male seen in the vicinity at the time of the murder,\u00a0 but were unable to trace him.<\/p>\n

In November that year, the police charged five Black and mixed-race men with White\u2019s murder, despite a lack of forensic evidence implicating them in the crime.<\/p>\n

The men in question \u2013 Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller \u2013 who became known as the \u201cCardiff Three\u201d \u2013 were each sentenced to life imprisonment, while Cousins Ronnie and John Actie were acquitted of the murder, having already spent two years in custody.<\/p>\n

Miller confessed to the killing after previously making 307 denials, also implicating the other men. He was interviewed on 19 occasions for a total of 13 hours and was denied access to a solicitor for the first two interviews. This led to the conviction of the trio, but in December 1992, the convictions were ruled unsafe and quashed by the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

Taped interviews with Stephen Miller, who had a mental age of 11, were deemed an example of inappropriate interrogation, and it was decided that the police investigating the murder had acted improperly. All three men were acquitted.<\/p>\n

At the time, the police insisted that the men had been released purely on a legal technicality and said they would be seeking no other suspects.<\/p>\n

In September 2000, the case was reopened and detectives discovered fresh forensic evidence, leading to the arrest and prosecution of Jeffrey Gafoor in July 2003.<\/p>

Where are the Cardiff Five now?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Only three of the five men are still alive \u2013 Stephen, Tony and John.<\/p>\n

In September 2007, Ronnie was found dead in his back garden. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n

Four years later, Yusef Abdullahi died at the age of 49.<\/p>\n

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Cardiff solicitor Matthew De Maid, whose firm represented Mr Abdullahi during the Cardiff Five case, says his client struggled to move on from the catastrophic events of being wrongfully accused.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe found life very difficult following his case and wrongful conviction,\u201d said Mr De Maid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe found it difficult to come to terms with life even after he was formally cleared.\u201d<\/p>\n

All three surviving men will appear in the documentary to speak about the aftermath of the horrific event and the impact the investigative process had on their lives. They\u2019ll also open up on the events which followed.<\/p>\n

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A Killing in Tiger Bay<\/span><\/figcaption> BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

John Actie, who is now 60 and still lives in Butetown, recently revealed how the infamous Valentine\u2019s Day of 1988 changed his life, and those of his wrongly co-accused, forever.<\/p>\n

Speaking to WalesOnline<\/a>, he said: \u201cMy life hasn\u2019t been normal for 30-odd years. It\u2019s never going to be the same now even after all these years and the dust has settled. I was wronged, [the detectives] got away with it \u2013 I\u2019m always going to be angry.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Tony Paris spoke out about the incident during an interview with Jeremy Vine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s the worst thing you can ever imagine,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEmotionally, mentally there isn\u2019t words to explain certain types of feelings when things happen to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recalling a moment from the case, he added: \u201cSo I\u2019m telling the police for months \u2018I don\u2019t know nothing, I don\u2019t hang around with these people and indeed if you\u2019re telling me these people were there, they wasn\u2019t there with me.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Despite what had happened, Paris moved back to Cardiff, which he says will always be his home, his parents having settled there from Nevis St Kitts not long before Tony\u2019s birth in 1957 when it was known as Tiger Bay \u2013 a multicultural district razed as part of a slum clearance in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLiving in the docks was brilliant,\u201d he said back in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was brought up with all nationalities, all colours all religions. White boys, Black boys, Somali boys, Arab boys, Chinese boys, we didn\u2019t see that, we were just docks boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Killing in Tiger Bay airs on Thursday, 9th September at 9pm on BBC One Wales (BBC Two in the rest of the UK). All three episodes will stream on iPlayer after the first episode airs. Check out more of our\u00a0Documentaries<\/a>\u00a0coverage of visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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