Murder in Tiger Bay: Lynette White and the Cardiff Three | Ep. 249
About this episode
This episode examines the murder of Lynette White and the subsequent miscarriage of justice involving the Cardiff Three.
A 20-year-old woman is working in Cardiff’s docklands district in the early hours of February 14, 1988. She is trying to earn enough money to get through another night and return home safely by morning. Instead, Lynette White was subjected to a savage and sustained attack in a flat above a betting shop in Tiger Bay. By sunrise, she is dead, and one of the most notorious murder investigations in British history is about to begin. Police came under intense pressure to find Lynette’s killer quickly, and what followed was a case that shocked Wales and later the entire United Kingdom. Detectives arrested a group of local men, three of whom were convicted despite no reliable forensic evidence linking them to the crime. The alleged confession was fiercely disputed, allegations of police misconduct emerged, and years later the convictions were overturned, exposing a catastrophic miscarriage of justice that would become known as the story of the Cardiff Three. In this episode of British Murders with Stuart Blues, we examine the murder of Lynette White and the long road to justice that followed for the Cardiff Three. From Lynette’s life in Cardiff and the events of that Valentine’s…
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