The Bibliography
Each title is built from original case materials and thirty years of CID memory. These are not reconstructions. They are the record.
Murder of Lynette Deborah White, 1988
On the night of 14 February 1988, Lynette White was murdered in Cardiff's Butetown district. The investigation that followed became one of the most consequential failures in Welsh criminal justice history.
Five men were convicted. Three were imprisoned. All were innocent. The Cardiff Five case exposed systemic failures in evidence handling, interview conduct, and prosecutorial decision-making that senior officers witnessed but could not speak to at the time.
This account draws on original case files, contemporaneous notes, and the institutional memory of an investigator present during key stages of the Cardiff inquiry. It documents what the official record omitted and where procedural certainty ended.
Primary sources. No reconstruction.
Every account in this series is built from original case files, interview transcripts, and contemporaneous investigative records — cross-referenced against firsthand procedural memory accumulated across three decades in South Wales CID.
Further titles are in preparation
Untitled South Wales Project — 2027
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