Of Tigers And Men: ‘A Killing In Tiger Bay’ and The Cardiff Five
How did one white man become five black men?
Warning: this post discusses a murder case, and related themes such as blood and violence.
It also discusses racism, institutional racism, miscarriages of justice, wrongful conviction, borderline torture, and police corruption.
There are brief references to sex work and drugs.
The name Lynette White is one that’s known all over Wales.
Because of what happened to her, and what happened to five innocent men after her death.
Sadly her life is often brushed over, eclipsed by the crimes of the police officers who were supposed to investigate her murder — police officers who couldn’t even manage to spell ‘Lynette’ correctly when they told the press her name.
Lynette White, a 20 year old White woman who had been working as a sex worker in the docklands area of Cardiff, was found dead on 14th February 1988.
She had been brutally and viciously murdered.
An eye-witness had seen a White man, covered in blood, leaving the flat where Lynette’s body was found on the…