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Add the councelor of Tower Hamlets East London as well
Iyo Sacad Muusihi lagu dilay Cardiff prison iyo Ina Bisad.

Cali_Gaab wrote:Add the councelor of Tower Hamlets East London as well
Iyo Sacad Muusihi lagu dilay Cardiff prison iyo Ina Bisad.

Wa kee sacadmusihi lugu dilay cardiif?

The guy that got hanged in prison, he was the last man to be executed in Wales.

http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/hhmattan/index.html

This was his wife Mrs Mattam

Cali_Gaab wrote:http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/hhmattan/index.html

This was his wife Mrs Mattam

i cant read all of that why was he hanged what did he do this happened in the 1950s

Mahmood Hussein Mattan was convicted on 24 July 1952 at Glamorganshire Summer Assizes, Swansea of the murder of Miss Lily Volpert in her shop in Cardiff on 6 March 1952

On the morning of September 3, 1952, Mattan, a young Somali sailor, was taken from his cell at Cardiff prison, marched to the gallows and hanged for a murder he didn't commit. Seven weeks earlier, in a parody of a trial, he had been found guilty of slitting the throat of Lily Volpert, a Cardiff shopkeeper. The hearing at Glamorganshire Summer Assize in Swansea was so steeped in racial bigotry that even Mattan's defence solicitor described him as a "half-child of nature; a semi-civilised savage".

Despite his limited grasp of English, he did not have an interpreter and the jury did not know that the prosecution witness on whom the case hinged had altered his statement and been rewarded for giving evidence. It took 46 years and a dogged family campaign before the Appeal Court overturned Mattan's conviction and allowed his Welsh widow, Laura, to exhume his quicklimed body from its felon's grave at Cardiff jail and rebury it in consecrated ground.

You'll have to read the full article to get a better understanding of the situation but above i have highlighted what he was accused of.

His son was found dead in Scotland (Rer Gadiid buu ahaa)

Mystery of hanged man's son goes on

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3047459.stm

Subxanallah, i didn't even know about his death.
I remember watching his other sons on BBC a while back.

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The thing is though he never ever left Cardif befoe in his life.This happened soon after the family got their big compensation