On December 10th, 1992, Yusef Abdullahi, Tony Paris, and Stephen Miller - The Cardiff Three - were released on appeal for the murder of Lynette White. This was a murder none of these men had committed, and yet they’d spent four unnecessary years in prison - time they will never get back. So, who did kill Lynette White?
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“Free, Free, The Cardiff Three!” – Part 1
The false accusation of five men, and the subsequent wrongful conviction of three men, remains a dark stain on Cardiff’s recent history that it isn’t likely to forget. In the early morning hours of February 14th, 1988, 20 year old Lynette White was murdered in a horrendously brutal fashion. The case was treated so horrendously by police, it is now known as the UK’s largest police scandal to date.