London: The family of a British Somali man executed in a British prison after being wrongly convicted of murder 70 years ago has formally received a p.
here in the uk, police in south wales have apologised for the first time to relatives of a somali immigrant who was executed in cardiff in 1952 after being wrongfully found guilty of murder. mahmoot mattan s conviction was quashed 24 years ago after his family argued he was the victim of institution racism. danielle fahiya reports. they killed my grandfather and they convicted the wrong man, they convicted the wrong man, they hang them for it. mahmood mattan was accused of an horrendous crime, the murder of a cardiff shopkeeper, lily volpert. my volpert. my grandfather was picked up because he was a somali immigrant. he couldn t speak much english. the police withheld a lot of the evidence. just six months after the
was quashed 2a years ago, after his family argued he was the victim of institution racism. danielle fahiya reports. they killed my grandfather. they convicted the wrong man and hang him for it. mahmood mattan was accused of an horrendous crime, the murder of a cardiff shopkeeper, lily volpert, in 1952. my grandfather was picked up because he was a somali immigrant. he couldn t speak much english. the police withheld a lot of the evidence. just six months after the attack, he was the last man to be hanged at cardiff prison. reporter: the family - of mahmood mattan arrived at the court of appeal this morning, hoping forjustice. after over four decades of campaigning, his name was cleared but the effects are still felt by the family. it isn tjust one life they took, three sons then went
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