Miscarriage of justice campaigners have called for an independent judicial inquiry into a series of cases investigated by South Wales Police that resulted in wrongful convictions.
A press conference organised by Michael O’Brien, one of three men who spent 11 years in jail for a murder they did not commit, heard from a number of former prisoners whose convictions had been overturned.
Dr Dennis Eady, of Cardiff University’s Innocence Project, said: “People’s lives have been destroyed by miscarriages of justice. Last month was the 70th anniversary of the execution of Mahmood Mattan, the last person to be hanged at Cardiff Prison [wrongly convicted of murdering shopkeeper Lily Volpert].
