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Anything Goes with James English

218: The Cardiff 5 Story - Britain‘s longest and most corrupt murder case John Actie tells his story.

Anything Goes with James English

Anything Goes with James English

Society & Culture

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Anything goes with James English Ep/218

The Cardiff 5 Story - Britain's longest and most corrupt murder case John Actie tells his story.

John was one of the so-called Cardiff Five who were wrongly accused of murdering Lynette White more than 30 years ago.

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0:00.0

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0:13.7

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0:18.7

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0:20.3

So 1988 Valentine's Day was Lynette White at my dad.

0:24.0

That's correct, yeah.

0:25.0

She was stabbed over 70 times.

0:26.0

There were three, four days I was in the police station, you know.

0:29.0

And then when they're coming in, they're saying,

0:30.0

the girl said, you stabbed the, you the knife to a throat you like oh my God you know I mean you know they're really you know they're gonna fit me up and I was telling a solicitor as it was they fitting me up

0:42.0

Stuart she was my solicitor and he was looking at me like to say

0:46.0

oh God you know and anyway as he went on they charged me and I was on a

0:51.7

Sunday evening and it was all they cuffed me and there was all like 40, 50 coppers there, maybe more.

0:59.0

And it was all surrounded us and and he just charged us with the murder.

1:03.2

Do everyone?

1:06.2

They didn't matter the whether you had an alibi.

1:08.6

They were, they was set.

1:10.3

They were, the stage was set, to take you off the streets and that's all it was concentrated on.

1:17.0

He was not interested in alibi's DNA.

1:20.0

I, you know, my sleep is fucked up from fucking 33 years ago, you know, I don't sleep good, you know, two, three hours a night.

1:30.0

You know, I mean, it's fucked it up. You know, he fucked up the whole my whole my whole

1:37.1

fucking life actually. He fucked everything up. Like I said, I've been stabbed. I've been glass in the face at 87 stitches down the face there you

1:47.6

know all over this in that white case you know oh yeah yeah I've had it all everything. The whole she banned. I know.

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