Part 3: The Cardiff Five

Shreds: Murder in the dock

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4.6 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

'They were looking for this white individual seen with blood on his hands… and with no explanation whatsoever they switch it’.

‘Shreds: Murder in the dock’ reveals the untold 30-year story of one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British legal history.

It is mainly told through the voices of the surviving members of the ‘Cardiff Five’ – the men originally charged and some of whom were later convicted of the murder of 20-year-old Lynette White in Cardiff’s docklands on St Valentine’s Day 1988.

We explore the original two trials – at the time the longest in British criminal history – right through to the fascinating conclusion of the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of Lynette White which culminated in the UK’s biggest-ever police corruption trial.

The back drop is the enduring fall-out on the innocent lives of those involved and the devastating impact on a community once known around the world for its diversity and tolerance, the legendary Tiger Bay.

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0:00.0	You're listening to BBC Sounds.
0:06.0	This podcast contains strong language and details of a murder which some may find distressing.
0:19.7	And everybody who had a knowledge of the community and the family community dynamics,
0:28.6	looked at those first people when that don't fit.
0:31.6	It just don't fit.
0:33.6	These people would not be seen dead in the same place, sat at a table together, planning a
0:38.5	flipping mugging of an old lady, let alone a murder. It just didn't fit. But after 10 months,
0:45.5	they put down the man who he's gone on national TV on Crime Watch, right, saying that they're
0:51.2	looking for this, white individual who were seen on the steps with blood on his hands,
0:59.9	irrespective of whatever transpired afterwards right and with no explanation whatsoever no justification whatsoever they switch it how does that make sense how is that law how is that justice
1:06.5	I'm Kerry Jackson
1:12.1	Welcome to Shreds
1:16.6	Why you're dead it to Shredd
1:18.6	That's why I'm feeling dead
1:24.6	I wouldn't call Tony a friend.
1:30.3	I knew Yusuf.
1:32.3	I knew Ronnie Acty, I knew John Acty very well.
1:37.3	John Acty wasn't a small fella.
1:39.3	He was a big fella.
1:40.3	He was a rugby.
1:41.3	I remember watching John Acty play rugby before he started playing football. He was, sometimes he was absolutely unstoppable.
1:47.0	And you watched him as a young kid 15 and 16 and 17 coming up.
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