South Wales Police apology 70 years after hanging injustice

Mahmood Mattan spoke very little English and could not read or write in the language.

The family of a father who was wrongly convicted of murder have been given a police apology 70 years after he was executed in a British prison.

Mahmood Mattan, a British Somali and former seaman, was hanged in 1952 after he was convicted of killing shopkeeper Lily Volpert in her store in Cardiff.

His conviction was the first Criminal Cases Review Commission referral to be quashed at the Court of Appeal in 1998.

South Wales Police have apologised and admitted the prosecution was "flawed".

Read the BBC News article here, and the Guardian article here.