Part 4: Witness to Murder

Shreds: Murder in the dock

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4.6 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Detailed and graphic accounts emerge from four people who claimed they were there.

‘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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to BBC Sounds.
0:04.8	This podcast contains strong language and details of a murder
0:08.4	which some may find distressing.
0:11.8	When they locks you up then and a cell,
0:13.4	your heads all over the place, you know, you're thinking,
0:17.0	they're fucking fitting me up.
0:18.9	Tony, Paris, who else, Ronnie, Miller, Duller.
0:22.6	Because, you know, to tell you the truth, care,
0:24.6	when I was in jail, I'm thinking, was Tony there?
0:27.6	Was it Ronnie there? Was Dulla there?
0:29.6	I'm telling you, no.
0:31.6	I'm not fucking beating around the bush, you know?
0:33.6	They got that way in thinking, you know, that...
0:36.6	Because, you know, they got a, they got that way in thinking, you know, that,
0:41.1	because, you know, thinking, well, I don't hang around with Tony.
0:42.2	I don't hang around with Della.
0:43.6	I don't hang around with Ronnie.
0:44.9	I don't hang around with Miller.
0:47.5	So, you know, was it all together?
0:48.2	Was they there?
0:49.6	Ronnie's my cousin.
0:50.4	That's it.
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