1999 Clydach Murders: BBC Panorama, South Wales Police Corruption, Dai Morris, Stephen Lewis

The Clydach Murders: A Miscarriage of Justice Paperback (2017) by John Morris https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clydach-Murd... Who REALLY murdered married WPC's lesbian lover? The disturbing question 12 years after man was given four life sentences amid shocking police cover-up https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti... South Wales's biggest ever mass murder was grotesquely savage Killer smashed fibreglass pole into 80-year-old invalid Doris Dawson's face Then sadistically murdered daughter Mandy Power and her daughters - Katie, ten and Emily, eight Murder shocked the village of Clydach, near Swansea, in June 1999 and made national headlines Emerged that Mandy's bisexual lover was a woman police sergeant who was married to another male police officer And he was the identical twin brother of a local police inspector who had gone on a mysterious 'lone patrol' on the night in question He was also the first senior police officer at the scene the following day Sensationally, all three police officers were arrested and interviewed But none were charged and it was builder David Morris who was handed four life sentences for the killings He will almost certainly never be freed because he protests his innocence Now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal extraordinary evidence that casts grave doubt on his conviction By DAVID ROSE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 22:09, 22 November 2014 | UPDATED: 16:35, 23 November 2014 The worst mass murder in South Wales criminal history was also the most grotesquely savage. First, the killer entered his victims’ home, went upstairs and smashed a heavy fibreglass pole repeatedly into the face of 80-year-old invalid grandmother Doris Dawson, rendering her utterly unrecognisable. And then he waited. Just before midnight, Doris’s daughter Mandy Power arrived at the house with her children, Katie, ten, and Emily, eight. The murderer leapt upon all three, killing them in identical, sadistic fashion. In a perverted twist, he then placed a sex device inside Mandy’s lifeless body. He set a fire to incinerate his traces, waiting for it to take hold. When it didn’t, he calmly started three further blazes. The killings made national headlines and convulsed the village of Clydach, near Swansea – and not just for their macabre brutality. It rapidly emerged that bisexual Mandy’s sometime lover was a former woman police sergeant married to another, male, police officer – who was himself the identical twin brother of a local police inspector who had gone on a mysterious ‘lone patrol’ on the night of the murders and was the first senior officer at the bloody scene the next morning. Then, sensationally, all three police officers were arrested and repeatedly interviewed – Mandy’s lover and her husband on suspicion of murder and his twin for allegedly trying to pervert the course of justice. However, none of them were charged and ultimately it was another suspect altogether who was tried and convicted. Three years after the crimes – committed on the night of 26-27 June 1999 – builder David Morris, now 52, was handed four life sentences for killing Mandy, 34, and her family. Morris is one of the few criminals in Britain who will almost certainly never be freed: Not because he was given a whole-life tariff, but because he still protests his innocence and so will not be considered for release. But The Mail on Sunday can reveal extraordinary new evidence which casts grave doubt on his conviction and is now the basis of his bid for a fresh appeal. The first bombshell development centres on a crucial memo in the police HOLMES computer system. This document reveals that a police informant told detectives within hours of the crime that both Mandy and her family were being threatened before the murders because of her gay affair – and that those threats were made by Sergeant Stephen Lewis, the same police officer who was later arrested. His then wife, Alison, was having the affair with Mandy, and later other witnesses told police that Lewis had discovered it – a claim he has always denied. By the time of Mandy’s death, Alison Lewis had left the force on grounds of stress but continued her career as a Welsh rugby star. The jury at Morris’s trial never saw that HOLMES document. But inexplicably, a new version of it was manufactured by the police. In part, it read like the original – except it removed all references to Mandy’s affair and Stephen Lewis. The original is revealed for the first time here. The startling differences beg the question: Why would police so comprehensively doctor such an apparently fundamental piece of evidence? The other key breakthrough comes in documents showing that scientists found DNA from an unknown man on the murder weapon, on two spent matches used to start the fires and on the clothes worn by Mandy when she was killed.