THE CLYDACH MURDERS

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sure you check that out I will leave all of the information and the link in my description down below and let's go ahead and get into today's video so like I said today we're going to be talking about the clinic murders which took place in 1999 in a small village called Clinic hence the name of the case and Clinic was in South Wales in a place called The Swansea Valley so let me start by introducing you to a woman named Mandy power she was 34 years old at the time that this case took place and she had recently divorced from her husband a man named Michael power the two of them had gotten married in 1986 and had two children together but eventually the marriage did break down and they got divorced but they did remain on good terms their children Katie who in 1999 was 10 and Emily who was eight moved in with Mandy into a house on Calvin Road in 1998 and they moved into 9 Calvin Road and they also lived there with Mandy's mother Doris she was 80 years old and she was bedridden Mandy was also described as being a bubbly outgoing woman who was the life of the party and she would always make time for her friends and her family and on Saturday the 26th of June in 1999 she was making time for her cousin she went out and she babysat for her cousin and then her and her children returned home just before midnight but within four hours of her returning home firefighters were called to the house because there had been a severe fire like some of the house had been really severely burned and inside the house the firefighters found the bodies of Mandy Katie Emily and Doris they actually had not perished in the fire it was found that they had been severely beaten by an intruder Doris had been killed in her bed while Mandy Emily and Katie had all been killed in the landing of the home obviously the police were called and they arrived to the house at 4 52 a.m to start their investigation and they started added a task force of 50 South Wales police officers which was led by detective superintendent Martin Lloyd Evans now from the start of this investigation it was pretty clear that this was not your typical house fire like this fire had been deliberately lit and likely done so to try and conceal the fact that murders took place I think probably the killer was thinking that if they burnt the house down it would kind of look like the victims burned to death and perished in the fire rather than having been beaten to death beforehand but that wasn't the case like it was pretty clear that they had been beaten and then a fire had been lit to try and cover it up there was also no signs of force entry into the house so it seemed like whoever the killer was they probably knew the family and were able to gain access that way there were also three key pieces of evidence that were found when they were investigating the house the first of which was a blood-soaked sock and it was theorized that this was kind of used like a glove there was also a gold chain which was caked in Blood and it was theorized that this had actually been pulled off the attacker during a struggle and then the third and probably the most important piece to be honest is the murder weapon so the murder weapon was determined to be a four foot fiberglass rod and it was determined that Mandy was actually struck by this 38 times which is significantly more than any of the other victims were struck so police were definitely at this point going off the assumption that the attacker was mainly there for Mandy like this was a targeted attack on Mandy and then I guess the other victims were kind of collateral because they were in the house at the time and this theory was also strengthened by the fact that Mandy had been stripped naked after her death and the killer had inserted a vibrator into her before trying to burn the house down to conceal the evidence investigator is actually under the impression that this isn't even something the killer intended to do like it wasn't they didn't intend to come and murder Mandy because the fiberglass Rod was actually from Mandy's home it was just something that was like lying around in the house and then the stuff that they used to try and burn down the house was also just from Mandy's house like it also belonged to Mandy so this killer came to the house they were granted access obviously because there were no signs of forced entry and they didn't come with any murder weapon they didn't come with any sort of materials to burn the house down it was all just stuff that they found in the house that facilitated this crime and it was also determined that the fire or the house was set on fire on two separate occasions the first time being at between 12 30 and 1am so by the time firefighters got there the family could have already been dead for well over three hours obviously police went and questioned neighbors and people in the area and just looked for any Witnesses anyone who may have heard something or seen something that just didn't look quite right and the family's neighbor a woman named Rosemary Jones said that she did hear a car pull up at about 1am and so she believed that that might have been the killer as police continued their inquiries and continued looking for Witnesses and going house to house they discovered that Mandy was actually having an affair obviously she was divorced but she was having an affair with a former police officer named Alison Lewis who was married so Allison was married to a current police officer who was still in the police first like still active and his name was Stephen Lewis so obviously you know there is some motive there because Steven's wife is sleeping with Mandy and also He's a a police officer like it's not good and it's also such a huge case like Clinic is a small village in 1999 there was about 7 000 people there like it is not big so obviously this case was huge like it really shook this Village everybody was talking about it everybody was also like really concerned because four people had been murdered in their small little town in such a gruesome way so obviously this was in all of the newspapers it was making National headlines and not just because of the matter either but also because there was this whole added layer of the affair and if there's one thing the media loves it is a scorned lover they go crazy for it now obviously this affair it's a massive motive for murder so that's where police are initially looking they're suspicious of Allison and her husband Stephen because I mean I don't think I need to tell you guys why I think it's pretty obvious why but they want to keep looking into all like possibilities they want to make sure that that they're leaving no stone unturned they want to make sure that they are really thoroughly invested in this case and you know also it's probably because Stephen is a cop and they want to make sure that they're not accusing a cop if there is some other possibility now anyway because of this affair that is where police are initially looking that's where they they're obviously suspicious you know a fair massive motive for murder right there so they're looking at Alison and Stephen from the side of their eyes they don't want to leave any stone unturned they want to keep looking they don't want to like Tunnel Vision on these two people on these two suspects right so in an effort to you know give Allison and Stephen the benefit of the doubt the police went and interviewed the entire Welsh rugby team female rugby team on the 1st of July because Alison was also a national level rugby player so they went and interviewed all of them to try and get the full picture see if this was really an affair type of situation or maybe they were kind of somehow are both responsible for the situation that they're in I mean no matter what anybody said though like the media had already lashed on to this affair and Allison and Stephen were really copying it in the media like they had been labeled as murderers Alison in particular was like really copying it even though there was no actual evidence to tie them to the murders and at this point they both had Alibis in each other like Stephen was Alison's Alibi and Alison was Steven's Alibi they both claimed that they were home at the time of the matters which I'm just gonna say like it's not really that hard of an alibi considering they're both suspects but at around this time another guy that the police were kind of looking into was a guy named David Morris and he was a divorced father of three in his mid-30s and he lived in a place called Craig Kevin Park which is only about a mile away from where Mandy lived and he allegedly had some previous involvement with Mandy and there were rumors that they shared a casual sexual relationship now at the time of the murders David was actually dating another woman named Mandy her name was Mandy Jules so from this point forward like I don't want to make this confusing because both of their names are Mandy I'm going to refer to his girlfriend Manny Jewel as Manny Jewel and then Mandy power I'm just gonna refer to as Mandy a little side note but Mandy and Mandy are actually best friends anyway police interviewed David on the 2nd of July and he said that he had no involvement with Mandy he said he obviously wasn't involved in the murders and that on the night of the murders he had been drinking he'd been at the pub and he was just like watching the rugby and he had an alibi as well because his girlfriend Mandy Jewell said that he had returned home before the murders took place so he couldn't have committed the matters because he was at home with his girlfriend and obviously now there are three suspects like the three people police have kind of looked into and gotten the vibe that they might be involved all have these Alibis and so they're kind of coming up a little bit dry and so they decide to have a press conference or make an appeal for information on the 13th of July so this is two weeks after the murders have taken place and then another two weeks later so on the 26th of July they start putting posters up around the village and continue to appeal for more information they were still continuing their own investigation this was and still is the biggest murder investigation in the history of Wales so you know they really were doing all that they could and by this point according to the police there just wasn't a lot of evidence so they were really appealing for more information on anyone who was not the police officers and it was a big investigation huge So eventually a woman comes forward her name is Nicola Williams and she basically says that she saw somebody hanging around Mandy's house on the morning of the murders at around 2 35 a.m and she saw this person from a moving vehicle so it wasn't really like a whole lot to go off to be honest like she could really only recall a rough height a skin color the fact that he was wearing a jacket and he was carrying some sort of bag under his arm but from her brief like viewing of this guy from a moving car from her brief description they were able to come up with an e-fit of this guy and an iFit is an electronic facial identification technology it's basically like a computer generated facial reconstruction so they made an effort using Nicholas description and it looked suspiciously like Steven and also it actually looked like someone else it looked like a guy named Stuart who happened to be Steven's brother who was also an active police officer so police decided not to release this iFit I wonder why couldn't think of a single reason to be honest with you I mean they later like when it came out that they decided not to release this they obviously had to come up with a reason and their reasoning was that they didn't think that this sighting aligned with the time of the crime and they also think that the fact that he had a bag was like maybe it wasn't the right guy because if he used a murder weapon from the house and all of his like fire burning materials were from inside the house he obviously didn't show up with anything and he didn't leave with anything so why would he need a bag and that was their excuse to not release this effort so after this the case kind of goes cold there's not a lot going on there's not a lot of new evidence coming in and so about two and a half months later so on the 13th of September they decide to release a 30 000 pound reward for any information that would lead to an arrest but unfortunately this still didn't Garner any leads I really apologize as well for any construction noise um I wish that was like a little like switch I could flick but unfortunately it is what it is and we just have some lovely background Ambiance today in January of 2000 over 1 000 leaflets were handed out in Port Tennant which is also in Swansea and they were basically trying to get any information from anyone who knew anything about a heavily blood-stained man who was dropped off at a local news agent in the area at around 5 35 a.m on the morning of the murders I couldn't really find any information about where this tip-off actually came from but there was apparently some sort of report that came in saying they saw this man on Port Tennant Road at this time and it was like a bit suspicious of course because he was like heavily bloodstained apparently unfortunately I don't really think anything came of those leaflets because nothing really happened there was no real information and so another six months later on the 21st of June Mandy's relatives made a TV appeal asking for any new information like at this point you really just want people to come forward with anything no matter how insign significant it might be you don't know how it's going to help with a case like this because it just seems like there really is nothing going on there are no answers like nothing is coming of this investigation at this time and Mandy's relatives have lost three generations like Mandy's mother Mandy and her children and Mandy's ex-husband as well has lost his children too and his ex-wife with no explanation none of them know why any of this has happened or who would do something like this to their family at around the same time they did actually release another effort but it came out that this was unreliable it was an e-fit of a woman and the witnesses Who provided this effort or helped create this effort were unreliable so it was really just kind of a massive case at this point you know there's no real evidence except for the chain and the Bloody sock and the murder weapon that we're all found at the house and then it's crazy because they do have like all of that evidence but then there's just nothing else you know they I have nurse suspects they have no new leads nothing's happening but the police were still investigating it they were still actively trying to figure out what happened so a few days after the family's appeal and the e-fit of the unreliable effort of that woman was released the police decided to set up this mobile incident room on Kelvin Road just hoping to uncover anything that they may have missed any clues Witnesses anything it's been almost a year by this point so I think they're really doing this and just hoping for a miracle now at this time what actually happened is one of Mandy's neighbors her name was Louise Pugh she was pretty close to Mandy as well they were friends not just neighbors and she actually comes to police with some new information the first thing she says is that the day leading up to Mandy's murder that she had gone into town and she had bought two bottles of wine in anticipation of apparently seeing Alison later that night so I don't know if she had plans to see Alison after she got back from babysitting for her cousin or what the deal was but she was planning on seeing Alison which is huge and even huja is Louise said that apparently a couple of weeks before Mandy's Murder She had witnessed a man yelling at Mandy saying stay away from my wife or I will kill you and you know if we want to take any guesses who we think that might have been while Louise did identify that man who yelled at Mandy as having been Stephen Lewis so obviously a couple of days later on the 4th of July Alison and Stephen Lewis were arrested on suspicion of the murders and Steven's brother Stewart his twin brother was also arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of Justice Alison denied having anything to do with the murders and denied that she had organized to go to Mandy's house the night that she was murdered they all denied having any involvement and all kept to their original stories saying that you know Alison and Steven said that they had been home together they had their Alibis like they were not breaking Allison did admit to having an affair with Mandy but she claimed that Stephen didn't even know about the affair which you know seems pretty unlikely by this point now you might be wondering a little bit where Stuart comes into this Stephen's twin brother and coincidentally he was actually the first responding officer on the scene of the crime the mourning of the murders he was the first one there but he was only there for a few minutes and then he left without telling anyone he was there without telling anyone of the murders and without making any notes about it he didn't preserve the crime scene in any way he literally just rocked up took a little squeeze said immediately no I've seen what I needed to see and immediately known he left and in doing this he may have actually hindered the investigation by contaminating the crime scene or destroying forensic evidence and on top of all of this the night of the murders he was actually on a lone Patrol so he was driving by himself in an unmarked red Peugeot and that red Peugeot was seen by Witnesses driving down Calvin Road the night of the murders so there is some suspicion some likelihood that he was involved as well as his brother and his brother's wife like they all may have been in on it or at least him and his brother you know his brother could have come to him and said my wife is having an affair with this woman and I'm gonna kill her and Stewart helped him clean it up Stuart did actually have an alibi for the time of the second fire apparently he was like attending a police matter at the time of the second fire but that doesn't mean he wasn't involved in the first fire the matter itself or the cleanup or destroying evidence having an alibi for that second fire it's not really a full Alibi is it once all of this information came out the community was like up in arms about this and Allison was copying the most of it when she was being questioned by police a mob of 150 people descended on the police station where she was being questioned they were being extremely hostile towards Alison to the point where police actually had to smuggle her out in the back of a police car I mean honestly you can kind of see where these people's frustrations are coming from because this investigation has been going on over a year now these people who they've now arrested were originally suspects like back when this case first happened a year ago over a year ago and it just seemed like the police were going really soft on them probably probably because they were police officers and ex-police officers so people were just really angry especially because at this point it seems like this case could have been solved a really long time ago and there could have been closure a really long time ago so people were mad and if you thought people were mad before that's nothing compared to four days later because four days later they were all released Alison Stewart and Stephen were all released because the crown prosecution said that there wasn't enough evidence against them but Steven and Stuart were both suspended from Judy it took another seven months before an announcement was made which officially cleared all of the Lewis's names and during this announcement they also asked for new information because by this point the case has pretty much gone cold again they were still investigating they were still looking into the case but there was really no new evidence no new information no new leads they really just kind of had to go over what they already had in their investment education and see if they could puzzle it together to come up with something new as they're looking through all of the evidence obviously the two major pieces of evidence that they have are the bloodied sock and the gold chain which was caked in Blood and so they decided to make an appeal to see if anybody knew someone who had lost a gold chain around the time of the 26th of June in 1999. this actually kind of like there was a massive coincidence in finding out who this may belong to this gold chain so there's this off-duty police officer and she goes and plays this game of Skittles which is kind of like lawn bowls and while she's there all of these members from the opposing team are saying to her like are you ever gonna find out who did this are you ever gonna find out who's responsible and she responded and she said I suppose we will if we ever find out who this gold chain belongs to and that's when these guys were like oh well that gold chain belongs to David Morris it's just crazy as well to think about because police had obviously released this information of this chain and this sock and nobody had come forward like people had known about this for a long time now this chain and nobody had come forward to say that it belonged to David Morris and now all of a sudden these guys are like oh well duh like it belongs to David Morris but they hadn't come forward when the police were appealing for information about this chain and it really just goes to show that in these sort of cases in murder cases and kidnapping cases in missing persons investigations there was always somebody out there who knows something but just isn't coming forward to the police always and it also gets me thinking like I wonder if anyone involved in any of the cases I've ever spoken about like has watched one of my videos on the case that they're involved in because you know some people are sick in the head and they like kind of get off on watching news about what they've done they like you know those people that like save newspaper clippings about their crimes and they watch documentaries on their crimes that sort of thing so anyway following this Revelation from these guys saying that this chain belonged to David Morris which is also somebody the police had already looked into so you know them saying this it's not just like a one-off thing like who is this guy we better look into him it's like they already kind of were suspicious about him and now all of a sudden the chain is his as well so police go and conduct a raid on David Morris's home at 7 30 a.m on the 20th of March 2001 and David Morris was also arrested on suspicion of murder and brought in to be interviewed he was 38 years old at the time of his arrest and there was obviously a subsequent surge of his house and another relevant property and they just didn't really have anything on him they didn't have anything to hold him so let me tell you a little bit about David Morris he was a small time crook that was known to police in clinic he had a violent past and had narrowly escaped conviction for an attack on another man with an iron bar and in total David had been convicted of almost two dozen times for various counts of robbery and violence as I mentioned earlier in the video he was divorced so he had previously been married to a woman named Wendy who he shared three children with and I will give you a little bit more information on him as we get throughout the rest of the case but it does seem like he had a pretty rough life up until this point and something that I also just want to mention because I find it so crazy is that he had three children of his own and still like murdered these other two children like I just find that really bizarre because obviously all forms of murder are incredibly messed up and it's insane that somebody cannot show remorse for any type of murder but having children of your own and being able to then go and murder children is just inconceivable to me it's insane like the fact that he's not looking at those children and thinking oh my goodness what if this happened to my children what would my children feel going through this I don't know that's just unreal to me now obviously the last time they brought him in he was released because there was no evidence against him and he also had an alibi his girlfriend Manny Jewel said that he was with her that night after he had gone drinking and watched the rugby at the pub but now the second time he's been arrested and they're questioning him his story is changing his story starts off the same he says he was at the pub drinking watching the rugby but at some point he got into an altercation with his girlfriend Manny Jewel and so he doesn't end up leaving with her he decides to stay at the pub continue drinking and he also starts talking to this woman named Janice Williams and then he says that he leaves the pub sometime at around 11 30 PM after he leaves he claims he starts walking towards his parents house which is a while it's it's a fair whack of a walk it's a five mile walk and he reckons he just was like yeah I'm gonna walk to my parents house halfway through turns around and says no I'm actually going to go back to my house and then he gets back to his house at 4 30 a.m so that's like five hours of time that's just unaccounted for which he reckons he was walking to his parents decides no I'm gonna walk home and he's just walking for like five hours and that's not suspicious at all Mandy Jewel his girlfriend also says that she couldn't recall what time he returned home that night or the next morning so he's got no alibi anymore and then also apparently like all the way back a day or two after the murders actually took place the woman that he was talking to at the pub Janice Williams actually went into the police station and she said that she had been at the pub with David the night of the murders like before the murders took place and that he was really really intoxicated he was taking amphetamines and apparently he was talking really disrespectfully about Mandy power as well like he was calling her an evil cow and saying that she was a horrible mother amongst other things so it was not no secret to police that at the time of the murders David definitely had some hard feelings towards Mandy to say the least unfortunately though police had no evidence against him obviously the reason they had arrested him the second time is because somebody claimed that the gold chain was his but the gold chain was so heavily caked in Blood and all of the blood was the blood of the victims so they weren't really able to tie him to the skull chain and the same story goes for the bloody sock again it was bloodied with all of the blood of the victims it was kind of used like a glove so they just weren't able to get any reliable DNA evidence from it David of course also denied that the gold chain was his he did have a remarkably similar one but he denied that that one in particular was his and he said that he had lost his two weeks prior to the murders at a construction site police actually went back to this construction site and like ripped it all up looking for this gold chain but I don't believe they ever found it and you know all of the lies that he's told police throughout this whole investigation his story constantly changing they are not about to stop believing him now at around this time police also speak to David's cousin a guy named Eric Williams and Eric claims to police that David actually came to him asking for money to buy a new gold chain and David apparently said to him police are going to come and start asking where my gold chain is so I need to go and buy another one Eric also claimed that David told him that he had slept with Mandy the night before the murders occurred at her Calvin Road home address and he apparently told Eric that his chain was still with Mandy so this is obviously huge this is a huge piece of circumstantial evidence and with the circumstantial evidence they have they actually arrest David Morris on four counts of murder and they were set to take him to trial with what they had even though they had no concrete physical evidence only circumstantial so while they're waiting to bring him to trial they're obviously still trying to gain more evidence against him and they decide to go and test the gold chain again because you know what is one more test gonna hurt and when they do this test of the gold chain they actually find little tiny bits of brick dust in the chain like in the links of the chain and David is a builder that's how he apparently lost his gold chain at a construction site because he was working at the construction site as a builder there was also allegedly some green paint found like some really tiny little bits of green paint were found on this chain and they managed to match this green paint to paint at David's house but I will say I thought this was a little weird because they had to strip back three layers in order to get to this green paint at his house I don't know if he had just painted his house three times recently or if he had had this chain pain since the dawn of time I don't know just a little weird but it did match and then after all of this pushback after David denying and denying and denying that the chain belonged to him he finally caved and admitted that it was in fact his chain and he also admitted that he did in fact have sex with Mandy on the Friday night so the night before the murders occurred obviously there's two possible reasons that he could be lying about this one he has a girlfriend Mandy Jules so he could be lying because he doesn't want her to find out that he was cheating on her or obviously the other big reason could be because he is a murderer the police's theory is that obviously the night of the murders he was out drinking he was taking drugs so he was pretty like wasted and he decided to walk to Mandy's house he made a sexual Advance towards her and she declined him and so he beat her to death with the fiberglass rod and then obviously the children and the mother were home and so he decided to murder all of them as well so that there were no Witnesses so his trial began almost a year or just over a year after he was arrested so it started on the 10th of April in 2002 and it was being held at the Swansea Crown Court and this trial was massive the media were obsessed and it was being reported across the whole of the UK the prosecution was being led by a man named Patrick Harrington and he was a very well respected Barrister but he still had to convince everybody that David did this because again there are still no physical evidence against David only circumstantial the prosecution during the trial told the jury that David was violent he was a violent person and they presented and backed this up with evidence of his previous crimes a friend of Mandy's named Gary bainan also took the stand he said that Mandy and David had never slept together they didn't have any kind of relationship but that Mandy was scared of David I think they kind of knew each other from hanging around in the same sort of circles but they didn't have like a one-on-one relationship most of the prosecution's case was based around David's inaccuracies the fact that he kept changing up his story and also the fact that he now admitted that the gold chain was his and obviously this gold chain was found in the house caked in blood so the jury heard all of this evidence they also heard that you know the prosecution believed that he had gone and made a sexual Advance towards Manny power she had rejected him and that is why he murdered her and her entire family they described his alleged actions as an orgy of savagery and they actually showed the jury a photo a very graphic photo from the crime scene which was so bad that one of the jury members actually collapsed and had to be taken to hospital prosecutors also believed that Mandy's mother Doris was also the first victim because the fiberglass Rod didn't have any of her blood so I don't know if it was just so caked under the other three layers of blood from the other three victims or if he kind of murdered her cleaned off the fiberglass rod and then the other murders took place but their theory is basically that he walked to Manny's house and he got there while Mandy was still out babysitting for her cousin so it was just Doris in the house by herself and he went up and he murdered her and then waited for Mandy to get home with her two children later that night and that is when the other three murders took place now the defense basically tried to take blame off David by putting everything on to Alison Lewis and painting her as a prime suspect and their reasoning for this is that as I mentioned earlier they recovered a vibrator from inside Mandy and they swabbed this they also swabbed Mandy's inner thigh and this DNA came back and said there were mixed materials that belonged to Mandy and potentially also Alison Lewis I mean this is really their only evidence to kind of tie Allison into it they didn't present any evidence that she was actually at the house like there's no other evidence that they presented to pain Allison as the suspect besides this DNA found on the vibrator which could be something that they used during intercourse because as we know they were having an affair Alison was brought in to take the stand during the trial and she maintained her innocence but the defense wasn't done yet Alison was in the witness box for about four days during this trial and during this time they basically did everything that they could to disparage Alison for example Allison was a martial arts expat she was a black belt in karate she had also competed at a high level in karate and so they got the defense got a karate expert or karate instructor to come in and show how Alison could have used the fiberglass Rod to commit the matters another thing that the defense brought up to use against Allison is actually a movie so there was a movie that Alison and Mandy like to watch together called Armageddon and Mandy had lent this to her neighbor her friend Louise Pugh and apparently leading up to the murders she asked Louise if she could have it back so that she could watch it with Alison in case Allison ended up coming over and Louise said that she did return the movie before the murders took place and sure enough at the crime scene there were all of these movies like strewn around on the ground and it kind of looked like the killer had set them up but the weird thing is there was one movie missing the box was there but the actual tape was missing and that was of course um I get in and then when they went to check Alison's house what movie do you think they found I'll give you a second Armageddon so there's all these little things that aren't physical evidence there's circumstantial evidence but they definitely paint Allison in a suspicious lie and that's kind of what they have on David as well both of these people there's no actual physical evidence against either of them there's only circumstantial evidence and that's really why the defense is trying to show all of this circumstantial evidence against Allison because really it could have been either of them at this stage at the end of the trial the jury deliberated for three days and they delivered their verdict on the 28th of June in 2002 in which they found David Morris guilty on four counts of murder and he was sentenced to four life sentences but two and a half years later this sentencing was actually overturned because there was a conflict of interest like he had an unfair trial due to a conflict of interest with his legal team and turns out this is because his solicitor actually worked for the Lewis Brothers none other than the Lewis brothers when they were suspects so because his sentencing was overturned he had to go through a retrial and this retrial lasted three and a half months and at the end of it he was actually reconvicted and his original sentencing was upheld but believe it or not this is actually where it gets a little bit juicy now I live in the UK at the moment so I don't want to go to prison for anything I'm about to say so I'm going to preface the Soul by saying this is all a legend of course and everything that I'm saying is all information that is readily available on the internet basically since David was convicted some more evidence and information has come out which alludes to the fact that he was wrongfully convicted wrongfully imprisoned and that there may have been a potential botched police investigation to cover up for some not so not guilty police offices since David was in prison there have been a multitude of supporters who have come out to say that they don't believe that he was responsible in this case that he was wrongfully convicted and his family have always maintained that he is not responsible for these murders there have been campaigns for his release and when you look at it it's not just his family and his friends who are doing all of this and holding these campaigns and trying to prove his innocence it's some very intelligent people who have done the research they have looked into all aspects of this case and the investigation and that they believe there has been a miscarriage of Justice one of these people is a man called Dr Brian Thornton from the Winchester Justice project and he basically discovered or uncovered that there were essentially two different investigations into the murder of many and her family and one of these investigations was centered around David Morris and the other investigation was centered around the Lewis's he heavily scrutinizes the investigation done into the Lewis's apparently Stuart Lewis couldn't even say what he was doing at the time of the murders he couldn't recall he also claims that there were repeated lies told by the Lewis's throughout the entire investigation there's also the matter of Louise Pugh who allegedly also saw Stephen Lewis at Mandy's house threatening to kill her for the affair and then Alison is claiming that he didn't know a thing about the affair on top of this there was actually another statement recorded within hours of the murders taking place where an unidentified informant said that they had overheard Mandy saying that she and her kids had been threatened by her Lover's husband who was also a police officer some other weird things that came up is that Stephen Lewis initially claimed that he had never been into Mandy's house never but as the story kind of evolved allegedly he admitted that he had gone inside maybe once or twice and then this evolved into him apparently like lighting some matches to get her stove top lit so he could make her a cup of tea when Mandy has an electric stovetop so she doesn't even have a gas stove top so there would be no need for matches anyway but then he also allegedly claimed that he may or may not have touched the murder weapon the fiberglass Rod by accident you know as you do just going around people's house touching fiberglass rods I've been there totally you know I'm always going to people's houses and just picking up their fiberglass rods and then telling people that I've never been to that person's house before apparently there was also DNA male DNA found on the bloodied sock from the scene of the crime but at the time that they found these this DNA was not seen as useful because they couldn't determine who the DNA actually belonged to some people think with the advancements in DNA today that they might be able to retest that and kind of get a better picture of who that DNA belongs to maybe tested alongside David's DNA or against Stephen's DNA but unfortunately this DNA cannot be retested because it's not considered new evidence because it's part of the original case I don't know why that matters but basically the only way that they would be able to retest that is is if they present it alongside new evidence I mean maybe they just don't want to do that because they're worried that it actually would be Steven's DNA rather than David's DNA on the bloody sock but more recently there's actually been a totally new like witness that has come forward like after everything has been said or done David's like in prison the whole thing's almost case closed this guy named John Allen comes forward and he basically said that on the morning of the murders at 4 30 a.m he saw Stephen Lewis walking with a green bag under his arm and he just kind of walked off into the darkness and he says that he never came forward with this information before because he didn't think that anyone would believe him because you know Steven's a police officer and what's crazy about this as well is if you remember the original efit that wasn't released to the public that woman drove by and she saw a man with a bag under his arm and then she gave the e-fit and it looked like Stephen Lewis you know it kind of all adds up so five months after John Allen came forward the South Wales police said that they were going to be reviewing the case with an independent oversight before anything could come out about this you know reinvestigation or not reinvestigation but them kind of looking into it again in August of 2021 David Morris actually passed away in prison and his family still maintains his innocence in this case to this day in October of that same year the results from the review on the case were released on social media and they basically said that they were able to Loosely link David's DNA to the DNA that was obtained from the bloody sock it wasn't a 100 match but I think they attributed this to being like 20 year old DNA so it wasn't anything concrete but I think it was just enough for them to kind of reaffirm that they did the right thing and they got the right guy and that sort of thing but what is weird is that the South Wales police have refused to hand over the forensic evidence to David's legal team they will not give them the full forensic report and they also won't say why they won't release this report to them but that's really it for this case honestly like that's kind of where we're at David's family is still fighting to clear his name and prove that he was innocent of this crime and it seems like we will never truly know what happened on that night and will never truly know what happened to Doris Mandy Katie and Emily I would love to hear your thoughts on this case because although it is a solved case I still think there are so many questions surrounding this case like did David actually do it there was no concrete evidence that he was actually responsible for this crime and there is circumstantial evidence that suggests that he did do it but there's also a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest that the Lewis's were involved I don't think it's a secret to anybody that police protect police and that could be a major factor in this case I mean I truly don't think that this case is solved I think that there is more information that we don't know and I just think there's more to it but I would love to hear your thoughts I would love to hear what you guys think if you think that this case is case closed or if you think there's more to it what you think happened I would love to discuss with you in the comments but that's everything for this case that's all from me today guys I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week and hopefully I will see you in my next video bye guys

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Published: Tue Jul 18 2023