Part 8: The 'confession'

Shreds: Murder in the dock

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

‘People will confess to anything to stop something happening.’ How the police broke Stephen Miller.

'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.
0:05.2	This podcast contains strong language and details of a murder which some may find distressing.
0:17.5	We have worked and worked and worked at this to try and solve this absolute malicious
0:22.8	terrible murder which you say you know absolutely nothing at all about I don't
0:29.3	I felt like I was being tortured it's all mind games well you could sit there and say that, being in that room, seeing that girl there in the
0:42.3	state she was in, and you're supposed to have had all this wonderful care for her, seeing
0:47.3	a damn head hang off, and an arm's cut, and stabbed to death, and you sit there and tell us,
0:53.3	you know nothing at all about you know nothing at all about it
0:54.5	nothing at all about it how you can ever I was in there I was in there I just
0:58.5	don't know how you can sit there I really don't see in that girl your
1:02.1	girlfriend in that room that night like she was they broke me down slowly
1:08.6	but surely.
1:13.6	So how do you know they're not lying? How do you know they're not lying?
1:14.6	Why should they lie?
1:15.6	Why should they lie?
1:16.6	Why should they lie?
1:17.6	Why should they lie?
1:18.6	Because they want the whole truth coming out of this terrible,
1:20.6	like me.
1:21.6	Like me.
1:22.6	Like me.
1:23.6	You don't.
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