The Clydach Murders

Author : John Morris
Publisher : Seren
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781781725306

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The Clydach Murders by John Morris Pdf

Is Dai Morris a brutal murderer or the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice? Author and former solicitor John Morris investigates the Clydach murders, which occurred in 1999, for which Dai Morris was convicted in 2006. In a case which shocked the country Mandy Power, her bed-ridden mother and her two young daughters were battered to death. The crime sparked a huge investigation yet the police made little progress. This widely researched book contends that Morris, convicted for the murders in 2006, is a scapegoat, an innocent man against whom justice was miscarried. No forensic evidence or DNA connected him to the crime; he was convicted because he lacked of a solid alibi, because his gold chain was found in Power's house and because, as a man with a criminal record, he initially lied to the police. Morris's case is to be heard in the Court of Appeal, probably in 2018, in the light of new evidence, including DNA testing and falsification of police documents. South Wales Police was notorious in the period 1980 to 2010 for false convictions on fabricated evidence. Significantly, previous suspects for the Clydach murders include former police officers, one of whom was having a lesbian affair with Mandy Power. There is every possibility that Dai Morris has suffered a miscarriage of justice. The author studied the police files and court papers, and discussed the case with key witnesses and experts. He is convinced that Morris is the victim of a conspiracy to falsely convict. The brutal murder of an entire family is a horrible thing but to compound it with an unsafe conviction shows a disrespect to the victims, to their relatives, to the family of Dai Morris and to the law. This new edition includes a short Postcript of new evidence generated by the original book, which casts even further doubt on the safety of the conviction of Dai Morris.

Author : Geoff Brookes
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752493749

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Swansea Murders by Geoff Brookes Pdf

Swansea has a dangerous past. As a seaport, the town confronted the unknown on a daily basis. In this book, we explore the dark underbelly of South Wales; from the dirty, lawless docks to the narrow, festering slums of the alleyways. Little Martha Nash, Claire Phillips, Peter Moitch ... all met their sad end within these streets.Even where the town meets the countryside is no safer. It is this idyllic landscape that was home to Muriel Drinkwater and Eleanor Williams, both of whom were tragically killed.Swansea is alive with the memories of its crimes; from unfortunate sailors to jealous husbands and vengeful employees, Geoff Brookes’ well researched and compelling book presents a selection of some of the most famous crimes. Each case is analysed and the key facts outlined; some were closed. Many remain unresolved, and their stories linger still. You will never look at Swansea the same way again.

Author : JOHN. MORRIS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 178172394X

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CLYDACH MURDERS by JOHN. MORRIS Pdf

Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : Seren
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781781726235

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The Dossier by Michael O'Brien Pdf

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?

Author : Suruthi Bala,Hannah Maguire
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780762473809

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RedHanded by Suruthi Bala,Hannah Maguire Pdf

2021 Listeners' Choice British Podcast Awards Winner What is it about killers, cult leaders, cannibals, cults, and criminals that capture our imaginations even as they terrify and disturb us? How do we responsibly consume these kinds of stories as entertainment, and more importantly, what can we learn from them? RedHanded rejects the narrative of killers as monsters and that a victim "was in the wrong place at the wrong time," and instead tells the stories we want to hear in a way that challenges perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture, and even our politics. After meeting at a party in London where they both discovered they listened to the same murder podcasts, Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala drunkenly promised to one day start their own true crime podcast together and the rest is history. From the hosts of the hit true crime podcast RedHanded (dubbed by Rick & Morty creator Dan Harmon as the "best true crime podcast I've heard, ever"), Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala have amassed a cult following of "spooky bitches" amounting to an incredibly strong 63k downloads per episode and 728k backlist downloads every month in the US alone. With candor, humor, interviews with experts, research on real-life cases, and an unflinching dissection of what makes a killer tick, Bala and Maguire take us through the societal, behavioral, and cultural phenomena that make victims -- and their murderers -- our collective responsibility and to find out once and for all: what makes a killer tick?

Author : John Morris
Publisher : Seren
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781854115676

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Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman by John Morris Pdf

The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 continue to exert a macabre hold on our imagination. Among the first serial murders, their brutality and bizarreness, and the seeming impossibility of detection have a terrible fascination. What kind of person could have performed such horrific deeds, and could have overstepped the boundary of what marks humankind? How could they not have been caught by the unprecedented police effort? The murders were reported on around the world and the murderer was the first to be given a macabre nickname. He has been the subject of hundreds of books and several films but his identity remains a mystery. Suspects have included the eminent Victorian doctor Sir William Gull, royal gynecologist Sir John Williams and the painter Walter Sickert. Conspiracy theories abound, involving Masonic, Jewish and other connections. This is the story of the extensive research of John Morris and his late father. Starting with the many unresolved questions about the murders they shockingly concluded that they could be answered if Jack was in reality a woman, not a man. But who could she be? After many twists and turns they reach an all too plausible conclusion...

Author : A.R. Wallace
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : History
ISBN : 9785879419405

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My Life. A Record of Events and Opinions. by A.R. Wallace Pdf

Author : William R. Drennan
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0299222101

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Death in a Prairie House by William R. Drennan Pdf

The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders. In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and "love cottage" for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others). Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright’s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association

Author : Stephen Glascoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781725799

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Operation Violet Oak by Stephen Glascoe Pdf

Stephen Glascoe's memoir is a nightmarish story of false accusation of child abuse, which raises important questions about the criminal justice system.

Author : Neil Walden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910551171

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South Wales Murder Stories: Recalling the Events of Some of South Wales by Neil Walden Pdf

Author : Phil Parry
Publisher : Cambria Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1916453295

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A Good Story by Phil Parry Pdf

This is the story of Phil Parry's extraordinary 35-year career in journalism on newspapers, television, radio and online before he was diagnosed with a serious disability.

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : OCLC:1259497052

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Crossword Lists by Anne Stibbs Pdf

Author : David Wilson
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780751584943

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Murder at Home by David Wilson Pdf

Home is where the heart is. But home is also the most common site for murder. The grimly fascinating new book from the UK's leading criminologist David Wilson uncovers the dangers that exist where we least expect them - perfect for fans of The Dark Side of the Mind and The Mind of a Murderer. The home is the place where murder most commonly occurs. In England and Wales, each year on average 75 per cent of female murder victims and 39 per cent of murdered men are killed at home. This gripping new title from the author of My Life with Murderers and A Plot to Kill explores the tragic prevalence of domestic murder and how, for so many victims, their own home is the place they are most in danger. David Wilson is the UK's leading criminologist and his knowledge of murder is unparalleled. By walking through each part of the house, he explains how each room's purpose has changed over time, the weapons they contain, and ultimately, how these things combine in murder. Delving into infamous as well as lesser-known true crime cases, this examination of the tragic, ordinary nature of murder is both a chilling read and a startling insight into the everyday impact of violence and how it can touch us all.

Author : Satish Sekar
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781909976528

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The Cardiff Five by Satish Sekar Pdf

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.

Author : Steve Hynes,Jon Robins
Publisher : Legal Action Comics
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : 1903307635

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The Justice Gap by Steve Hynes,Jon Robins Pdf

The authors describe the origins and history of legal aid as well as New Labour's attempts to reform the system years on. They argue that on its 60th anniversary legal aid has fallen short of its original aims.