The sister of a man jailed for a murder he didn't commit has slammed the decision to allow the true killer out of prison on day release. Tony Paris was one of three men wrongly found guilty of the 1988 murder of Lynette White in a notorious miscarriage of justice that saw the group - known as the Cardiff Three - serve two years in jail.
He, together with Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller, all of whom were black, were sentenced to life imprisonment following a lengthy murder trial, despite police issuing a photofit of a white man as the main suspect as part of their initial investigations. The men's convictions were later quashed by the Court of Appeal, while advances in DNA technology led to the true murderer, Jeffrey Gafoor, being convicted of the killing in 2003 and jailed for life.
Gafoor, who was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years before he could be considered for parole, had his latest application to be set free immediately rejected by the Parole Board. However, he has already "successfully undertaken temporary releases from prison," according to a recent report to the Ministry of Justice, in preparation for his eventual release.
