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In January 2021 a decision was made to review one of the most controversial murder cases in Welsh history. Murder in the Valleys I: The Murder, caption, Sky Crime 2024
I’ve been feeling guilty for the last 20 years. But I had to protect my family. This is why I never come forward … And I know for a fact it was that person: the man in question. ibid. witness
2001: Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of murder. ibid. news report
David Morris being led away by police … It’s nearly two years since the battered bodies of three generations of the same family were found in their burnt-out home. ibid.
One police force in Britain has a disturbing record of locking up the wrong people in murder cases. ibid.
I have no doubt at all that David Morris is the killer. ibid. rozzer
26th June 1999 the night of the murders, Kelvin Road, Clydach … As we pulled into the street neighbours confirmed there was a family in there. ibid. rozzer
It had to be someone they knew. ibid. neighbour
I felt that the main victim was Mandy, that the answer lay somewhere with Mandy. After the murders, the killer strips her naked then puts a vibrator inside her … Why would someone want to kill Mandy. ibid. rozzer
MORRIS, DAVID: Murder in the Valleys TV -
In January 2021 a decision was made to review one of the most controversial murder cases in Welsh history. Murder in the Valleys I: The Murder, caption, Sky Crime 2024
I’ve been feeling guilty for the last 20 years. But I had to protect my family. This is why I never come forward … And I know for a fact it was that person: the man in question. ibid. witness
2001: Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of murder. ibid. news report
David Morris being led away by police … It’s nearly two years since the battered bodies of three generations of the same family were found in their burnt-out home. ibid.
One police force in Britain has a disturbing record of locking up the wrong people in murder cases. ibid.
I have no doubt at all that David Morris is the killer. ibid. rozzer
26th June 1999 the night of the murders, Kelvin Road, Clydach … As we pulled into the street neighbours confirmed there was a family in there. ibid. rozzer
It had to be someone they knew. ibid. neighbour
I felt that the main victim was Mandy, that the answer lay somewhere with Mandy. After the murders, the killer strips her naked then puts a vibrator inside her … Why would someone want to kill Mandy. ibid. rozzer
Battered To Death With 4ft Metal Rod: New clue to massacre. Murder in the Valleys II, Mirror 3rd July 1999
Interviewer: Who did it look like?
Witness: Stephen Lewis, the police officer. Alison’s [Mandy’s lover] husband. ibid.
In the first couple of weeks they probably had all the evidence they wanted. ibid. reporter
Witness: He [Lewis] said stay away from my wife or I’ll fucking kill you. ibid.
Detectives question Alison and Stephen Lewis for four days. ibid. caption
Morris was not liked by South Wales police. Murder in the Valleys III, woman in the know
A very chaotic crime scene … We didn’t get results. ibid. Forensic lady
Alison Lewis’s DNA was found on the inside of Mandy’s thighs … but David Morris’s DNA is not on Mandy’s thighs … There’s your doubt. ibid. defence
After three days of deliberation, the jury reaches a unanimous verdict. ibid.
Two and a half years into David Morris’ life sentence the safety of his conviction is being questioned by the Court of Appeal. Murder in the Valleys IV, caption
He [Defence QC] had also acted for Stephen Lewis. ibid. TV news
David Morris has won his appeal against conviction … A retrial will now follow … ibid.
A massive blow when we lost him [Michael Mansfield QC]. ibid. family
He repeated those lies … He changed his story time after time. ibid. prosecution
The more you kind of pushed against this evidence, you thought actually this is not what it seems to be. There’s something wrong here. ibid. investigator/journalist
Stuart, the identical twin brother of Stephen, doesn’t know where he was for hours on a shift where he is a senior officer. And offers no explanation why he can’t remember. Then lies repeatedly … Stuart Lewis was never called. ibid.
Then he [Stephen Lewis] says he may have gone into Doris’s room … And then in the most remarkable moment is where he says that he might have touched the murder weapon. The officers interviewing him are almost stunned by this. ibid.
There’s male DNA on this murder weapon … There’s male DNA on the sock that may have been used by the killer as a glove … The problem with the DNA is because it was part of the original case, it can’t be considered as fresh evidence. ibid.
New driver witness John Allen: The person I saw was by here. He ran across here like this and he looked directly at me. And I had a perfect view of that person. Perfect view. And I know for a fact that that person was the man in question. Sergeant Stephen Lewis. He had a green kitbag under his arm and he ran into the darkness … Who would have believed me? ibid.
John Allen’s new testimony is important and significant … The sighting by John, the new witness, supports the original evidence from the police investigation from the trial, that of Nichola Williams. An efit was generated which was pretty much a picture of Stephen and Stuart Lewis … all these sighting combine. ibid. academic investigator
A guilty man asking for forensics to be done again. ibid. family
I don’t trust them [rozzers]. ibid.
Clydach murders: Sock links David Morris to scene, say police: A forensic review of the Clydach murders has made ‘significant findings’ linking convicted killer David Morris to the crime scene, police have said. BBC News online article 18th October 2021