Lynette whyte

September 9, pm Updated pm. Your guide to what to watch next - no spoilers, we promise Email address is invalid Thank you for subscribing! Sorry, there was a problem. More from Culture. Film Home Sweet Home Alone is homophobic, racist and uncomically vicious. During the trial, none of the scientific evidence found at the scene could be linked to the suspects. The case was widely viewed as a gross miscarriage of justice and a huge campaign was launched to free the men — and in , the Court of Appeal ruled the convictions were unsafe, and quashed their sentences.

Mr Miller, Mr Paris and Mr Abdullahi were freed, but the police said this was purely due to a legal technicality and they were not looking for any other suspects — despite calls for the case to be reopened. In January , thanks to advances in DNA technology, forensic scientists were able to obtain a reliable crime scene profile.

This information led to a man named Jeffrey Gafoor, who confessed to the murder of Ms White and was sentenced to life imprisonment in However, because he pleaded guilty, he was given a shorter minimum tariff that the wrongfully convicted men had been given. Gafoor, now aged 55, was tracked down using new DNA techniques, 11 years after three men had murder convictions quashed.

Ms White, 20, a sex worker, was stabbed more than 50 times by Gafoor in a flat in the docklands area of Cardiff in The Parole Board said earlier this year that it was "satisfied that the risk to the public has reduced sufficiently to be manageable in an open prison". However, it was a recommendation only and the Ministry of Justice has made the final decision.

According to Ministry of Justice guidelines, "as the Parole Board carries out a thorough risk assessment, it has been long-standing policy to only reject their recommendations in very limited circumstances". The Ministry of Justice also said that the Prison Service "retains the ability to return offenders to closed prison at the first sign of any concern".

In sentencing Gafoor, the judge said he had "allowed innocent men to go to prison" for a crime he knew he had committed. Resuming in May , the trial finally concluded the following November with cousins John and Ronnie Actie cleared by a jury after two years in custody and Miller, Paris and Abdullahi all found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

They were duly acquitted by the Court of Appeal in December Eight years later, South Wales Police reopened the case and discovered fresh forensic evidence at the scene, including specks of blood on the cellophane wrapper of a cigarette packet and on a skirting board, which had since been painted over. He was proscuted for the murder at Cardiff Crown Court on 4 July and pleaded guilty , prompting audible gasps from the public gallery as he did so.