The man who murdered Cardiff sex worker Lynette in a case that led to a notorious miscarriage of justice has been allowed days out of prison in preparation for his eventual release, it has been revealed.
But the Parole Board has rejected Jeffrey Gafoor’s latest application to be set free immediately. Lynette, 20, was stabbed more than 60 times at her flat in the city’s dockland district of Butetown on Valentine's Day 1988.
Police issued a photofit of a white man as the main suspect, but three black men - Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller - were wrongly found guilty of the murder. Their convictions were later quashed by the Court of Appeal. Eventually, after advances in DNA technology, Gafoor was convicted of the murder in 2004 and jailed for life.
