Mixed Memories

[j.sabourn]

Probably took all sorts including remittance men who were paid to keep out of England.JS

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Probably took all sorts including remittance men who were paid to keep out of England.JS.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Watched a UK program Escape to the Country, the bloke taking this couple around; stopped at the monument to the Tod puddle Martyrs and said this is a very important monument, do you know who they were? they didn't have a clue, this couple were in they're thirties, doesn't anyone know their history any more?
Des

[John Pruden]

policing is a hell of a lot different to the old days some murders are on camera the scum that killed the soldier rigby stayed at the seen and why the police did not ram him against the nearest wall and with DNA cctv all around i have said it for years your DNA should be stored from birth so crime in the future could be a thing of the past some here will say the big brother watching you if you have nothing to hide then nothing to fear the amount of people that it could save with matching bone marrow transplants ect? jp

[John Pruden]

i dont think anyone would like mine lewis i'm safe there but if you think about it say a rape in years to come a murder going around if you could put a name on it would be a good thing? or a child hanging on to life needing a bone marrow transplant could be someone the other side of the world i think anyone would stand up to the plate and help them. i am waiting to see what medical advance is found when looking for the covid make up suppose only time will tell but i will take my hat off to the boffins that has saved millions throughout the world?jp

[happy daze john in oz]

Watched a UK program Escape to the Country, the bloke taking this couple around; stopped at the monument to the Tod puddle Martyrs and said this is a very important monument, do you know who they were? they didn't have a clue, this couple were in they're thirties, doesn't anyone know their history any more?
Des

Problem is Des, particularly here in Oz, history is no loner taught.
The danger in that is that if you do not learn from history you may well make the same mistake again.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Certain if the powers that be wanted / needed your DNA,
they have it already ?

Permissions are a different matter.

k.

[Louis the fly]

In Cardiff's Tiger Bay a young prostitute was found butchered in a flat above a betting shop. Eyewitnesses said they had seen a white man acting strangely with blood on his hands. The police arrested four black men although there was no evidence of them being at the scene.
They were convicted and served long prison sentences before being released when the man the eyewitnesses had seen confessed to the murder. The black men were known to the police as petty criminals and according to them this was payback time. A couple of high ranking police were tried for framing the men, they were found not guilty.
If we had the death penalty in the UK the men would have been hanged and the case closed.

[Louis the fly]

If the death penalty was ever reintroduced in the UK how many innocent men and women would be executed ? Once they are dead it is too late to say sorry we made a mistake. Look to the States as an example.

[Keith at Tregenna]

On September 3 1952, dad-of-three Mahmood Hussein Mattan was taken from his cell at Cardiff prison and executed for a murder he did not commit.

He was the last person to ever be hanged in Cardiff and the final innocent person to be hanged in Wales.

Born in Somalia in 1923, Mahmood Mattan was a sailor and his job ended up taking him to Wales.

The Somali seaman was found guilty of murdering shop worker Lily Volpert.

Four and a half decades after Mahmoud's death, Appeal Court judges overturned his
conviction and he was found to be innocent.

The Mattan family did not receive compensation until 2001, 49 years after Mahmoud was killed. After a lengthy battle,
they received £1.4m. It was the first time the Home Office compensated the family of a man who had been wrongly hanged.

The epitaph on Mahmoud's gravestone reads "Killed by Injustice".

All of those lost years, all of that time. Things could've been so different for the three sons. They grew up without a father.

Natasha Grech, Mahmood Mattan's granddaughter.


A saying from years ago this way:

"The police can fit you up faster than Burton's"

K.

[John F Collier]

If the death penalty was ever reintroduced in the UK how many innocent men and women would be executed ? Once they are dead it is too late to say sorry we made a mistake. Look to the States as an example.

When the death penalty was abolished I was in agreement, tragically innocent men have been executed and often on flimsy circumstantial evidence
Timothy Evans is the man I'e never forgotten, he was wrongly convicted and hung in 1950 for the murder of his wife and baby daughter, John Christy was later found to be the real culprit and also hung for several other murders. I've changed my mind on that now, here is my reasoning. Since the 1960s
with the introduction of Forensics DNA, much improved detecting methods and CCTV, doorbells with cameras and cars with Dashcams, the chances of an innocent person being convicted of a crime are, to say the least "much less". Take that evil bastard of a copper Couzen" who murdered Sarah Everard, to
my mind he has no right to be alive, there is a very old book that quotes "An eye for aney, a tooth for a tooth", that's good enough for me, cheers.
PS, 10 Rillington Place is an excellent film which is true to the events, stars John Hurt as Evans and Richard Attenborough as Christy, a great film.