An ex-police officer has claimed his own force botched a murder inquiry – leading to unfounded rumours his family was involved in the killings of a mother, her two little girls and their grandmother.
Former Inspector Stuart Lewis was held in a cell for four days, interviewed 26 times and suspended for four years after being arrested in connection with one of the worst crimes in British legal history.
Mandy Power, 34, her daughters Katie, 10, and Emily, eight, and her mother Doris Dawson, 80, were found bludgeoned to death and their house set on fire in 1999. The finger of suspicion fell on Stuart Lewis, his police officer brother Steve and Steve’s wife Alison Lewis, who was having an affair with Mandy. Alison and Steve were arrested on suspicion of murder, and Stuart on perverting the course of justice but all three were later cleared.
