Part 6: ‘Free, Free the Cardiff Three’
Shreds: Murder in the dock
BBC
4.6 • 727 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How reliable was the police case? And Brooklyn comes to Butetown to take to the streets.
'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. |
| 0:05.1 | This podcast contains strong language and details of a murder, which some may find distressing. |
| 0:15.1 | It is clear that it is only because of their social, economic and racial status that they are in jail. |
| 0:26.6 | We must not be intimidated to stop fighting. |
| 0:29.6 | I don't care what names they call us, how bad they write about us. |
| 0:34.6 | We're fighting for our very lives. |
| 0:36.6 | We're fighting for justice very lives. We're fighting for justice. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Kerry Jackson. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome to Shredz. |
| 0:45.3 | Why you're dead to Shredd. That's why I'm feeling dead |
| 0:51.3 | dead. Why you break up my heart? The Cardiff 3 had now been in jail for three years, |
| 0:57.6 | but the campaign to set them free was gaining ground, fast. |
| 1:04.3 | In November 1991, the then-controversial American Black Rights campaigner, |
| 1:10.7 | the Reverend Al Sharpton, had |
| 1:12.5 | touched down in Cardiff from Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:20.5 | I come today to support the efforts to free these three men because I have a firm belief in their innocence. |
| 1:28.8 | A press conference was arranged in one of the pubs down the docks. |
| 1:33.3 | I think the incarceration of people unjustly leads to the breakdown of society. |
| 1:39.6 | Anytime in a city like this that you have these amount of people waiting to march, certainly the leaders |
| 1:46.0 | of the justice system here ought to look at this again, and they ought to deal with the fact |
| 1:51.0 | that there's no forensic, there's no other evidence to hold these guys, that there's a miscarriage |
| 1:56.0 | of justice, a misselection of a jury, and that these young men are being held wrongly. |
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