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Daily Mirror
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Antony Thrower

Police finally apologise to family of man hanged 70 years ago after flawed conviction

The family of a dad who was the last person to be hanged in Wales have received an apology from police as he was found to have been wrongly convicted.

Mahmood Mattan was executed in 1952 for the brutal murder of Cardiff shopkeeper Lily Volpert, despite there being no evidence linking him to the crime.

Police at the time ignored the fact he had alibis backed by witnesses and arrested him within hours of the murder.

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