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Her face still haunts the justice system. Her murder didn't just lead | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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to the wrong men being jailed. up! We've been going through that | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
murder for frigging 23 years. Where's that justice? It exposed | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
allegations of corruption and incompetence in South Wales police. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
A witness who lied breaks her 24 year silence. It was not my fault | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
the police it was down to them. Evidence disappeared and a case | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
collapses. This whole thing stinks - somebody somewhere knows the | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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The biggest trial of former police officers ever seen in Britain has | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
collapsed. The eight officers were charged with colluding to pervert | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
the course of justice in a murder inquiry." Aquitted of all charges | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
after nearly even years under investigation. I'm elated. At last | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
I feel I been vindicated I done nothing wrong on this enquiry and I | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
told that to the investigating team from the day I was arrested. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
emerged vital prosecution documents had been destroyed and the judge | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
ruled the men could not now receive a fair trial. I am pleased correct | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
verdicts been reached. The last six years have been harrowing for | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
myself and my family. The �30 million trial was meant to draw a | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
line under a notorious miscarriage of justice. Police branded this man | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
a murdering pimp they got it wrong. Blatant, blatant. They took my | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
liberties away blatantly. I was innocent. This woman helped frame | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
him tonight for the first time she reveals why. I knew it was wrong to | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
tell lies but I am trying to make the public understand that what | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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happened it wasn't my doing. case ended in chaos - raising even | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
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It was 24 years ago that I first reported on this murder. This is | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
where the story starts - in Cardiff's docklands. Lynette was | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
working as prostitute. She was killed and mutilated in a flat | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
where she'd taken a punter, Jeffrey Gafoor. He got away with murder for | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
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15 years. But he set off a chain of events which would destroy other | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
innocent lives and continue costing us the public tens of millions of | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
pounds, and at the heart of it lay major questions about police | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
corruption, cover ups and incompetence which could cost the | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
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In 1988 Lynette was 20, and taking deadly risks with strangers. | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
Jeffrey Gafoor stabbed her more than 50 times in a row over �30. At | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
first South Wales Police said they were looking for a white man seen | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
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outside the flat. A woman noticed a man in a doorway he appeared to | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
have blood on his hands. He must be the prime suspect. Mumbling, | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
incoherent and I gather he was crying at times too, blood on his | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
hands. He certainly is a person who we must speak to at this time. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
10 months later five black men petty criminals from the docks, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
were arrested and charged with Lynette's murder. They were | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Lynette's boyfriend Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi, Tony Parris, and | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
cousins Ronnie Actie and John Actie. They became known as the Cardiff | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
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Five. They all denied it, but were implicated by witnesses who nearly | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
20-years on, admitted lying. They said they'd been forced to by South | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
Wales police officers. Ronnie Actie was first to be cleared after | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
nearly two years on remand. person or persons who killed | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Lynette White is still out walking the streets. Next day, John Actie | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
was also found not guilty. But the other three were convicted and | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
sentenced to life imprisonment. Stephen Miller has a low IQ. He was | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
said to have been "brainwashed" by police into lying. After 18 | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
interviews over four days, he claimed he'd seen Yusef Abdulahi | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
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How you can sit there and say that you been in that room seeing that | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
girl there in state she was in and you supposed to have had all this | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
wonderful care for her seeing her damn head hang off and her arms cut | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
and stabbed to death and you sit there and tell us you know nothing | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
at all about it? Nothing at all about it? I wasn't there. I wasn't | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
there. How you, I don't know how you can sit there. I felt like I | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
was being tortured. Not physically tortured, mentally. Four years | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
later the court of appeal quashed the convictions and condemned the | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
police officers' conduct during Stephen Miller's interview as | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
bullying, oppressive and the worst example of police excesses. I was | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
treated rotten. I had no rights whatsoever. They lied to me. They | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
put me through sheer hell. I feel it in my heart. I know what people | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
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feel like when they been wrongly accused. These two have been | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
through what I have been through. I admitted to something I knew | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
nothing about. Since then Stephen Miller has moved to London and kept | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
out of the media spotlight. But he agreed to tell me about the life | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
shared with Lynette. And about how his false confession began a living | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
nightmare. One minute I'm on the streets next minute I'm charged | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
with murder of my partner. You bring in the nice guys who soften | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
me and I say no, no, no, then bring in guys going to rough me up. All | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
mind games. They broke me down, slowly but surely. The court | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
accepted that the convictions were unsafe. No police officers have | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
ever been convicted of any wrongdoing. For Stephen Miller, | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
freedom didn't end the accusations - he'd been labelled a murdering | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
pimp. I know I am not no pimp. I used to go out with Lynette. She | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
done what she done. I met her when she was doing it. I tried to stop | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
her going down that road but you can't change a person if they don't | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
want to be changed. Lynette lived in a violent, chaotic world as a | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
street prostitute. She and Stephen Miller were drug users and he was a | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
dealer. I used to be like a Delboy character. I did odd jobs here or | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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there. I used to sell weed, lived off my weed money. Lynette, she | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
used to give me money, like I used to give her money. Did you love | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
her? Yes I did love her definitely without a doubt without a doubt. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
There was a future - we did talk about marriage at some stage but | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
that was way down. She had so many things she wanted to do. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Lynette never got the chance. Last summer at the start of the trial in | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Swansea the prosecution said "corrupt officers" had conspired to | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
jail innocent men. The officers - now retired - all denied any | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
wrongdoing. They were said to have put pressure on vulnerable | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
witnesses including Mark Grommek, who lived in the flat above the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
murder scene, and two prostitutes Leanne Vilday and Angela Psaila. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
The three eventually admitted telling a pack of lies. They said | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
they'd been bullied into it. They'd helped set the scene for one of | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice. Till now, | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Angela Psaila has refused to speak publicly about the lies she told. I | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
want the world to know from my point of view what happened in them | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
days. It was not my fault. The police, basically it's down to them. | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
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I was given no choice, nothing. 1988 Angela Psaila, like Lynette | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
worked as a street prostitute, picking up punters in the docks | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
area of the city. At that point of my life it was survival. Working | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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the streets, getting a bit of money for food. It was hard, every time | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
you went out you just didn't know if you were going to be alive at | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
the end of the night. It wasn't easy. I didn't want to do what I | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
was doing but I had no choice had to do it. Like Stephen Miller, | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Angela Psaila has a low IQ. She says police warned her unless she | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
testified against him and the others she could be charged with | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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murder. She says she was terrified. I was under a lot of pressure from | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
police was tremendous amount of pressure. Lot of shouting and | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
pointing - they told me point blank I was there. I was very afraid, | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
very afraid you know? The police were not playing games. I have no | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
doubt in my mind that they would have charged me with murder. | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
and the others stayed silent as the miscarriage of justice unfolded. | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
What went through your mind? Did you feel guilty about it? I felt | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
bad at what was happening but at the end of the day it was totally | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
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out of my hands. Nothing I could do, nothing. This was the amount of | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
pressure they were putting on people. We couldn't you know | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
couldn't do anything. You just, you just feel like an animal as if in | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
big cage and no matter which way you look you can't get out. In 2003, | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
their lies caught up with them. I was in court to watch Jeffrey | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Gafoor plead guilty to Lynette's murder. He's been caught by | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
detectives using new DNA technology. Gafoor was a lone killer who had | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
slipped back into normal life. He was working as a security guard | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
when police finally identified him. He hasn't got no feelings about us | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
doesn't feel sorry for us who took his place in prison. When he's the | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
one who has done wrong. I think the best place for him in prison. No | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
doubts about that. Her family say Lynette wanted to be loved and one | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
day, be a mum. But Gafoor ensured that she would be remembered for | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
what she did rather than who she really was. Everybody knows that | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
she was on the game but you don't say it 24/7. It gets old. It's | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
disgraceful. They should be ashamed of themselves. She was a very quiet | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
person kept herself to herself. She liked videos, she liked to have the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
occasional drink, she liked smoking her cigarettes and all the things a | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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20 year old does. Gafoor's guilt meant the South Wales Police were | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
no longer hunting Lynette's killer. They began an investigation into | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
their own officers - the ones who'd got it so wrong sending innocent | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
men to prison. It also meant the witnesses who'd lied about what | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
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happened in Lynette's flat were guilty of perjury. In 2008, Angela | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Pasila was sentenced to 18 months in jail, along with former | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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prostitute Leanne Vilday and Mark Grommek. He had been threatened. He | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
was threatened that he'd be arrested and sent to prison | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
possibility charged with conspiracy to murder or been involved in that | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
it overbore his will. He went along with what he understood police | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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Mark Grommek was represented by David Bullbridge QC at his trial. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
That pressure built on Mr Grommek over weeks, and then months. His | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
case was that he had been taken into custody and not been formally | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
arrested. But he was taken to the police station on a number of | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
occasions from his place of work, and had been interviewed not on | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
record. There were no tape recordings of what had happened to | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
him. At did they warned him not to change his story? They made it | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
plain that the account he had given, which accorded with what they | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
believed, was one they wanted him to stay with. When he went to court, | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
that was the account they expected him to give. The perjury trial | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
exposed not just the lies of witnesses, but the tactics used by | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
police to get the result they wanted. In the trial for perjury, | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
the prosecution conceded in court before the judge that they accepted | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
everything that he said had happened to him. The judge said he | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
and the other two were vulnerable individuals who had been seriously | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
hounded, bullied, threatened, abused and manipulated by the | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
police. You are a Queen's Counsel with many | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
years of experience. You are a judge as well. Have you ever come | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
up against this level of depression? Not this type of | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
oppression. To date, no officers have been convicted of any | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
wrongdoing. Leanne Vilday and Angela Psaila new | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
Lynette and Stephen Miller from the streets. I hated those girls for | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
years. But hate doesn't get you nowhere. It just needs your way. If | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
I saw them and they came through this door now, I would not shake | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
their hands, but I would understand where they were coming from. Leanne | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Vilday has a new identity and did not want to be interviewed. Her | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
barrister says she had hoped that one day, the whole truth would come | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
out. She pleaded guilty in the expectation that there would be a | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
rigorous and successful prosecution of those who had placed her in the | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
position, as the prosecution accepted, of giving false evidence | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
against the Cardiff Three. That is not to excuse the false evidence | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
she gave, but she gave it in extraordinary circumstances. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
said police threatened that if she refused to give what was a false | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
account, her young son would be taken into care. She was held, in | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
essence, as a sort of hostage in police premises in South Wales | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
until she had finished giving evidence. The degree of complicity | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
that she was persuaded into included an assertion not only that | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
she was present at teatime of the murder of Lynette White, but that | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
after Lynette White was dead, she committed an act using a knife that | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
made her forever complicit and that risk of being prosecuted for murder. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Now that the South police corruption case has collapsed, | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
Leanne Vilday, Angela Psaila and Mark Grommek will be demanding | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
another day in court. I believe the collapse of the Swansea case may | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
mean that a new appeal can be mounted for Leanne Vilday in which | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
she can go to the Court of Appeal and say, although I was guilty of | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
what I did, given what has happened, it was unfair for my trial to take | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
place. Therefore, I should have my conviction quashed. But whatever | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
the outcome, for Angela Psaila, there will never be any escaping | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
the lies she told. My mental health is not in good nick. What happened | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
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has destroyed my life. If I apply for jobs, they recognise the name. | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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As soon as they see the name. Life is hard now. It is very hard. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
corruption trial collapsed when the judge was told that evidence had | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
been shredded by police investigating their former | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
colleagues. A few weeks later, when that evidence turned up intact, the | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
force and the judicial system had embarrassing questions to answer. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Stephen Miller and his solicitor are demanding a public inquiry into | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
the collapse of the case against the former police officers. Someone | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
has got the balls in the office to say the inquiry will be a public | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
inquiry. You know what I mean? Nothing. That is what hurts me. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
They are effing with people's lives. What Stephen and the others wanted | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
was for the trial process to proceed, the evidence to be tested, | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
and hopefully for the officers to be found guilty. To a large extent, | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
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that would have drawn a line in the sand for them. 23 years after | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Lynette White's murder, there are questions which cut to the core of | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
the legal system. The officers have foreword -- always denied any | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
wrongdoing. The judge said he could not guarantee them a fair trial | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
because of the way evidence had been handled by the police and | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
prosecution. I am delighted that after six-and-a-half years, I can | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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get on with my life. Those eight officers, they are saying that they | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
have been vindicated and that we do not know what they went through for | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
six months. We have been going through that murder for frigging 23 | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
years. Where is our justice? director of the Crown Prosecution | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Service has said he is concerned at the collapse of a trial which has | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
cost millions and is likely to undermine confidence in the justice | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
system's ability to deal with alleged corruption within its ranks. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
You would think that with such a serious and important trial, the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
largest one in this jurisdiction's history of this importance against | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
so many police officers, they would have got that aspect of the case | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
right, especially when we were told that they spent �400,000 on a | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
computer so -- system specifically designed to list and deal with | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
disclosure of. Defence barristers wanted access to files containing | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
complaints about the way South Wales Police had handled the | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
corruption investigation. But they could not be found. Nick Dean QC | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
told the court that there were a deliberate acts of destruction of | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
four files, and that the instruction for the destruction of | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
the files had come from a senior officer, Mr Cootes. Detective Chief | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
is Superintendent Chris Cootes led the corruption investigation. Eight | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
weeks after the trial collapsed at a cost of �30 million, the files | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
were found in the possession of South Wales Police. Exactly how | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
Britain's biggest police corruption trial ended is still under | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
investigation. So what happens now? I don't think anything can happen | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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to them now. There is the verdict from the trial. It is impossible to | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
go behind that. According to the process we have, that is an end of | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
it as far as they are concerned, and they have been declared not | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
guilty. The corruption trial was the culmination of a seven-year | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
investigation by South Wales Police. It was supervised by the police | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
watchdog the IPCC. But because the trial collapsed, there are fears | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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that not all the facts about what happened in 1988 will come out. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
believe that whatever the findings of that inquiry, we need to have | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
them publicly aired, nothing held back, the whole unvarnished truth, | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
if indeed they arrive at the truth. The MP has written to justice | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
minister Ken Clarke and policing minister Nick Herbert, demanding | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
the publication of all the findings. The policing minister should | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
intervene and ensure that the remit, if it is not extended sufficiently, | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
is extended again to ensure that everything, good or bad, sees the | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
light of day. No one from the IPCC wanted to be interviewed about the | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
case. It told us it is considering what, if any information, from the | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
corruption investigation might be published. This whole thing stinks. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Somebody somewhere knows the truth of what happened, and they should | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
be brought to book for what happened, not least because people | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
have been sent to jail unfairly and �30 million of public money have | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
been spent on what seems to have been a waste of time. South Wales | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Police has spent more than �9 million investigating officers who | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
were involved in the original murder inquiry. It has paid out | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
more than �1.5 million in compensation to the Cardiff Five. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
But we have discovered that the public cost may rise even further. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
The Force is facing fresh legal action from those who say they were | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
"fitted up" and from a number of the officers who denied doing it. | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
After winning his freedom, Ronnie Actie, like the others, wanted to | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
know why he had been framed. they wanted me off the street for | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
the rest of my life, I don't know. I would love to know why. One day, | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
they will come out, the reasons. But he died in 2007, never knowing. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
And six months before the start of the corruption trial in Swansea, | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Yusef Abdullahi died of a heart attack. But the other three are | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
planning a new claim for damages against South Wales Police, this | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
time over the collapse of the trial. The purpose of that would be to | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
fold, firstly to hold them to account for what happened and | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
seconded to get compensation for our clients as a result of the | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
additional suffering they have undergone and are continuing to go | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
through because of the trauma they have suffered as a result of the | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
trial collapsed. South Wales police have confirmed that 13 people are | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
now suing the force for damages as a result of the corruption | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
investigation and the collapse trial. We understand that they are | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
nearly all former police officers. The Stephen Miller, there is more | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
than money at stake. I am entitled to the money. I will not turn it | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
away. But if I could have those officers in prison and not the | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
money, I would have the officers in prison, rather than money. It is | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the principles. That is why we are still fighting the case, the | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
principles of it. Miscarriages of justice had damaged the reputation | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
of South Wales Police for decades. The Darvell Brothers, the Cardiff | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
Newsagent Three, Jonathan Jones, Annette Hewins and Donna Clarke, or | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
wrongly jailed, leaving unsolved murders. The cases remain open and | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
under investigation. Reports into what led to the collapse of the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
trial are expected in the spring, but there is growing concern that | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
they will not get to the bottom of what really happened, and that | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
could damage the force even further. I do not want the good policemen | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
and women of South Wales to be affected by what has happened in | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
this case. That is why I believe the only way of laying this to rest | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
in a constructive way is by having a full inquiry into all aspects so | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
that the South Wales police can move on without this around their | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
neck. We asked Chief Constable Peter Vaughan for an interview | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
about this case. He said he could not discuss it because of ongoing | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
inquiries, which he supports. No one can tell us how much Lynette's | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
case has cost the public, but legal experts estimate that by the time | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
it is over, it could be more than �100 million. When I first reported | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
the hunt for Lynette's killer in 1988, no one imagined that it would | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
have led to three murder trials, an appeal, a perjury trial and a | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
collapsed corruption case. It has been going on for a very long time, | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
a running sore. Did you think that 24 years on, it would still be | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
continuing? Never. It is a tragedy for all concerned that it is | :28:04. | :28:11. | |
continuing. It must be brought to an end. The Docklands may have | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
changed since Lynette walked the streets. But life for those at the | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
centre of this case remains dominated by what happened then. | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
will never be over for me. People will always judge me for what the | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
police made me do. It is not them being judged at the end of the day, | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
it is me that is being judged. These officers did not kill anybody, | :28:37. | :28:42. |