A Valentine's Day Murder: Episode 08
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today we head to Wales and examine a frenzied murder which took place on Valentines Day 1988. Lynette White was only 20 when she was stabbed to death in a flat above a bookmakers in the Cardiff Bay area of the City. In this episode of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast we examine events leading up to the murder and how three men, 'The Cardiff Three' were wrongly imprisoned for the crime.
We probe how advances in DNA technology allowed police to finally catch Lynette's killer fifteen years later and the devastating effect this had on Lynette's family and others involved in the original investigation.
Finally, we look at how detectives involved in the original investigation into Lynette's death found themselves on trial for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice before the trial sensationally collapsed.
References
Audio
Lynette White: Prostitute was 'a tragic figure'". BBC News. 2 December 2011. Radio interview with Tim Rogers by BBC Radio Wales
Bibliography
Sekar, Satish (1997). Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry. London: The Fitted In Project. ISBN 978-0-952-73250-1.
Sekar, Satish (2012). The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt. Hook: Waterside Press. ISBN 978-1-904-38076-4.
Williams, John (1994). Bloody Valentine: A Killing in Cardiff. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-006-37968-3.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 8 of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast, I'm Adam. |
| 0:05.9 | Today we go to the Welsh Capital Cardiff. |
| 0:09.8 | As you'll know this podcast tends to focus on smaller lesser-known crimes. |
| 0:14.7 | But today I've made an exception and we examine this much higher profile crime, purely |
| 0:20.3 | because it's one that had a major impact on me when I was studying at the University |
| 0:24.0 | in South Wales. |
| 0:26.0 | Lynette White was born on the 5th of January 1967 as a parent, Terry and Peggy. |
| 0:31.3 | They split when Lynette was young and soon after Terry married 16-year-old Cowell White. |
| 0:37.4 | The two lived in Cardiff and Terry's daughter with Peggy, Lynette, lived with them and the |
| 0:42.3 | two children of their own they went on to have. |
| 0:44.5 | This was a son, Terrence and a daughter called Kyra. |
| 0:48.2 | Both of the younger children dooted on the road as step sister and their Terry idolized |
| 0:52.9 | Lynette, sharing her with love. |
| 0:56.9 | Lynette was a pupil at Rumley High School in Cardiff but she left school without any qualifications |
| 1:02.0 | and she was attracted to the nightlife of the Cardiff Docks area so she moved into a bed |
| 1:06.4 | sit there. |
| 1:07.4 | Although it's hard to believe now with the transformation of the Docks in Cardiff, this |
| 1:12.5 | was the CD Red Light District of Cardiff back then and Lynette was working as a prostitute |
| 1:17.3 | in the area. |
| 1:19.0 | At the end of 1987 she was interviewed by Tim Rogers, a BBC Wales journalist, as part |
| 1:24.4 | of an investigation into child prostitution. |
| 1:27.1 | Rogers said that Lynette was probably the most visible prostitute working in Cardiff |
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