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South Wales's biggest ever mass murder was grotesquely savage
Killer smashed fibreglass pole into 80-year-old invalid Doris Dawson's face
Then sadistically murdered daughter Mandy Power and her daughters - Katie, ten and Emily, eight
Murder shocked the village of Clydach, near Swansea, in June 1999 and made national headlines
Emerged that Mandy's bisexual lover was a woman police sergeant who was married to another male police officer
And he was the identical twin brother of a local police inspector who had gone on a mysterious 'lone patrol' on the night in question
He was also the first senior police officer at the scene the following day
Sensationally, all three police officers were arrested and interviewed
But none were charged and it was builder David Morris who was handed four life sentences for the killings
He will almost certainly never be freed because he protests his innocence
Now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal extraordinary evidence that casts grave doubt on his conviction
By DAVID ROSE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 22:09, 22 November 2014 | UPDATED: 16:35, 23 November 2014
The worst mass murder in South Wales criminal history was also the most grotesquely savage.
First, the killer entered his victims’ home, went upstairs and smashed a heavy fibreglass pole repeatedly into the face of 80-year-old invalid grandmother Doris Dawson, rendering her utterly unrecognisable. And then he waited.
Just before midnight, Doris’s daughter Mandy Power arrived at the house with her children, Katie, ten, and Emily, eight. The murderer leapt upon all three, killing them in identical, sadistic fashion.
In a perverted twist, he then placed a sex device inside Mandy’s lifeless body. He set a fire to incinerate his traces, waiting for it to take hold. When it didn’t, he calmly started three further blazes.
The killings made national headlines and convulsed the village of Clydach, near Swansea - and not just for their macabre brutality. It rapidly emerged that bisexual Mandy’s sometime lover was a former woman police sergeant married to another, male, police officer - who was himself the identical twin brother of a local police inspector who had gone on a mysterious ‘lone patrol’ on the night of the murders and was the first senior officer at the bloody scene the next morning.
Then, sensationally, all three police officers were arrested and repeatedly interviewed - Mandy’s lover and her husband on suspicion of murder and his twin for allegedly trying to pervert the course of justice. However, none of them were charged and ultimately it was another suspect altogether who was tried and convicted.
Three years after the crimes - committed on the night of 26-27 June 1999 - builder David Morris, now 52, was handed four life sentences for killing Mandy, 34, and her family.
Morris is one of the few criminals in Britain who will almost certainly never be freed: Not because he was given a whole-life tariff, but because he still protests his innocence and so will not be considered for release.
But The Mail on Sunday can reveal extraordinary new evidence which casts grave doubt on his conviction and is now the basis of his bid for a fresh appeal.
The first bombshell development centres on a crucial memo in the police HOLMES computer system. This document reveals that a police informant told detectives within hours of the crime that both Mandy and her family were being threatened before the murders because of her gay affair - and that those threats were made by Sergeant Stephen Lewis, the same police officer who was later arrested.
His then wife, Alison, was having the affair with Mandy, and later other witnesses told police that Lewis had discovered it - a claim he has always denied. By the time of Mandy’s death, Alison Lewis had left the force on grounds of stress but continued her career as a Welsh rugby star.
The jury at Morris’s trial never saw that HOLMES document. But inexplicably, a new version of it was manufactured by the police. In part, it read like the original - except it removed all references to Mandy’s affair and Stephen Lewis.
The original is revealed for the first time here. The startling differences beg the question: Why would police so comprehensively doctor such an apparently fundamental piece of evidence?
The other key breakthrough comes in documents showing that scientists found DNA from an unknown man on the murder weapon, on two spent matches used to start the fires and on the clothes worn by Mandy when she was killed.
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David Morris is an innocent man.. Nicola Williams gave the description of the man who she saw and identified him.. it was not Dai Morris but Stephen Lewis or his brother Stuart Lewis..being twins it's just a case of which one.. Thank you Nicola you are a diamond x
@johnbarton3252
3 жыл бұрын
Only just picking up on this case now having just watched recent documentary. What doesn't add up, is how Lewis who was working through the night, was also the first officer to attend the scene the next morning, ? Shouldnt he have been off shift ? Can anyone clarify this please.
@stevienico452
3 жыл бұрын
Yea, you couldn't have made up the photofit if he he was drawn standing in front of you, perfect sketch, unbelievably accurate. Something very wrong gone on here. The problem is now after 2 trials, SWP have a very embarrassing and damming future if the right thing is done now, a third trial and he gets found innocent which many believe is a very likely scenario.
@BorderlineRatLady
2 жыл бұрын
He’s not innocent, he has a long criminal record of violence. He’s dead though now as of today. But he is not innocent at all.
@dianathomas5143
2 жыл бұрын
I gree David Morris is innocent
@leesmavicmoments5598
2 жыл бұрын
@@BorderlineRatLady he done it
I have never heard about these cases until now. Unbelievable.
Seems the Lewis brothers have questions to answer and the investigating officers need to explain why they covered thing up for so long. Hopefully the documents won’t get lost like they did at the officers tried for corruption after the Lynette White case
@PeterBorenius
3 жыл бұрын
This is organised crime within the police - just the same pattern as in 1985 The savage 1985 Swansea sex shop murder that saw two vulnerable men wrongly jailed and may never be solved www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/swansea-sex-shop-murder-sandra-16210390 Sandra Phillips was found in a pool of blood in the Private Shop in Swansea more than three decades ago but her killer has never been caught - By Sandra Hembery 5 MAY 2019 It was one of the most brutal murders ever to take place in Swansea. On June 14, 1985, sex shop manager and mother-of-four Sandra Phillips was sexually assaulted, struck about the head, and eventually strangled. Petrol was sprayed around the Private Shop in Dillwyn Street but it was not set alight. That was how the shop was found when area manager Anthony Williams called there. He arrived just before 2pm and found it closed. It was when he unlocked the door using spare keys and found Mrs Phillips in a pool of blood that a long-running murder inquiry began. An old-fashioned telephone handset, believed to have been used in the attack, and Mrs Phillips’ set of keys were missing and both have never been found. Despite exhaustive investigations over several years, and the wrongful conviction and jailing of two men, the brutal murder 34 years ago remains unsolved. The murder of Sandra Phillips may never be solvedHours after the death journalists and passers-by gathered as police began their probe. Among them were Wayne and Paul Darvell, two homeless brothers who lived in hostels by night and swigged on cider by day. The brothers were pulled in as part of the police investigation. They were well-known to the police for petty crimes but, as the questioning continued, Wayne Darvell made a series of confessions. He claimed he had been present at the murder and had seen his brother Paul carry it out, although Paul Darvell always maintained his innocence. The Darvell brothers, Paul and WayneThe Darvell brothers, Paul and Wayne (Image: Media Wales) The police’s case centred around Wayne’s confession - and the fact they had been seen by many people near the shop, with some reporting seeing them with a container which could have had petrol in it. But, despite carrying out forensic tests on the brothers’ clothes, they found no traces connecting them to what had been a frenzied attack in the blood-spattered premises. The brothers were, though, charged with murder. An eight-week trial followed and the pair were sentenced to life in prison on June 19, 1986, with a recommendation that Paul serve at least 20 years and Wayne 15. Later an investigation by BBC’s Rough Justice programme found something was not right about Wayne’s confessions. The scene outside the sex shop as police investigate the murderIt was the start of a major investigation (Image: Media Wales) He had told police he would take them to the murder weapon but no weapon was found. He showed them a charity collection box he allegedly stole from the shop but it was from a different shop. And he gave details of a St Christopher medal he said he had taken from the dead woman but she didn’t have a St Christopher. It turned out that Wayne was a serial confessor. His former teacher at a special school said he was forever confessing to things he hadn’t done. It was more than enough to cast doubt on the convictions and after spending seven years in prison the Neath brothers were released by the Court of Appeal in 1992. Albert Kirby, the former head of Merseyside CID who led the investigation into the death of toddler James Bulger, reviewed the case in 2002. An appeal on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme threw up new leads and a fresh investigation started in 2004 but was closed five years later. The South Wales Police team completed the recommendations made following the review but they said in 2009 that “all lines of inquiry and forensic opportunities have been exhausted”. Mrs Phillips was 38 when she diedMrs Phillips was 38 when she died (Image: Media Wales) The force apologised for the shortcomings of the original 1985 investigation but said, despite hitting a brick wall, staff remained fully committed in attempting to bring those responsible for Mrs Phillips’ murder to justice. Detective Superintendent Paul Burke said in 2009: “It is important to stress an investigation is never completely closed and any new information which is received will be fully investigated.” The two brothers wrongly accused of the heinous crime were later awarded £80,000 in compensation for the time spent in prison. In March 2005 Paul Darvell, then 42, was found dead at his home in what police said was a non-suspicious death. spokesman for South Wales Police said recently: “All historic murder cases, often referred to in the media as ‘cold cases’, are allocated to the Specialist Crime Review Unit and remain under active consideration and will be subject of re-investigation as and when new information is received or when there are advances in forensic science.
I've lived in Cardiff for half my life & the South Welsh cops are an utter embarrassment
Whenever police or government wants to cover up things documents go 'missing' - classic behaviour.
That is the best e-fit I have ever seen.
This happens all over the country
Total stitch up by SWP.
Why has this still not been re investigated? Mad!
I have never seen an e-fit that loks so like the suspect!! EVER! This was like a photograph!!!
Love the Welsh accent, so musical and homely to listen to!!
@BorderlineRatLady
2 жыл бұрын
I’d have to agree because I’m Welsh too lol. I live down the road from where these poor girls died.
@chardz2007
2 жыл бұрын
Diolch yn fawr
@BENSTER489
Жыл бұрын
Try living here and wait until they turn on you.
As if two "criminals" ever shout in the cells giving details that could incriminate themselves! Corruption!!
This is utterly shocking
@tristanmorgan852
3 жыл бұрын
When you get the chance look up all the miscarriages it's unbelievable I agree but police in general When they can't solve it. In Wales especially they fake it
Free dai Morris
Very interesting case - RIP to the 4 victims 😢
Until they sacked they still get paid to how sick is that to
I was personally involved in this ,, however I shall not say how. I can say on complete honesty that the police did their best to shall we say' make mistakes ' with the possibility of them throwing out the investigation. I have no issue if people do not believe me, bothers me not an iota. Please research yourself. With blessings to all, and be gentle Please be safe in our present society issue. Xxxxxxx
@freddieking4846
3 жыл бұрын
U be safe 2 but its blatantly obvious that police force is bent how many other people are away for there corruption
@maureenhaley112
3 жыл бұрын
I don't need research myself...I already know all about myself! #Opps #INcompleteHonesty Having said that, we just watched people who have done all the research and exposed police corruption.
@ATtravel666
3 жыл бұрын
A family friend went to the same swimming pool as someone who claimed to have been the forensic photographer who photographed the crime scene. The photographer said "we are looking for one of our own" - this was just after the police had appealed for a "butch" woman to come forward to help them with their inquiries. It turned out this woman was ex police, and married to a serving police officer whose identical twin brother was also a copper.
Unfortunately you guys, these are the times we live in and it could happen to any one of us. This level of corruption by an institution meant to protect us and are paid for by us, has to start at the top and slithers down like a snake through force after force. The Sargent's of every station should have his/her officers terrified to drop the ball, but they are not, why not? Because they don't have to be. They know the wagons will be put in a circle of cover up and if innocent people have to pay for their crimes, so be it.
I watched this other nite and how did Dai Morris find the metal bar??? Only 2 people knew it was there the neighbour who hit it behind the shed in back garden and Alison Lewis who seen the neighbour hiding the bar but yet the bar was used to murder the poor family. That was not mentioned in court.
@darrenmorgan6735
2 жыл бұрын
@@thishandleisntavailable861 exactly mate the cops covered it up mate which is not good the scum one of them cops don't live far from me so I will tell him when I see him how he got away with murder him his wife and his brother scumbags
Such a disgraceful shame!
Thanks for sharing 👍✌
The BBC at its best. Well done!
@PeterBorenius
3 жыл бұрын
For a change...
The police are very, very scary....😳🥺☹
@tristanmorgan852
3 жыл бұрын
It is possible for them to put you in jail over something you have not done. I agree with you that is very scary
@tristanmorgan852
3 жыл бұрын
Not an exaggerated statement unfortunately just look at these miscarriages of justice ⚖
Allison lewis did it
seriously? because he was on speed and had some drink doesn't make him a murderer. Absolutely crazy analogy.
@leesmavicmoments5598
2 жыл бұрын
He was already a nasty piece of work powder and drink just added to it
Ive always seen Wales as one of the nicest out of the UK and least trouble, guess not 😕
Police stick up for police simple
Good people getting jail for nothing
i hate the police to. my do. died recently and they’ve done nothing to resolve why it happened . in fact i’d go as far as to say there covering something up.
I love Wales 🏴 Down to earth... I am from Cardiff.
I have done my own investigation myself concerning the biggest case of property fraud in the UK, many of us are paying service charges to companies who are not our landlords.
What about DNA. Killers always leave it.
@stevienico452
3 жыл бұрын
Yea, sloppy and dangerous killers, and I doubt if Dai Morris went out drinking and toke his nitrile gloves with him either. He has been betrayed as a wreckless, spontaneously violent man, doesn't fit the crime.
Love Panorama 👍
so corrupt, i bet this still goes on i wales.
The interview did take place look at the guy nod his head and say no at the same
I lived approximately 1 mile away when this happened in clydach. This is shocking it is obvious that this was Alison and her brothers covering up for her. David Morris was just someone to charge for it. In my opinion I think Mandy told Alison she has fell for David and she wanted to end it with Alison so they have framed David Morris.
@PeterBorenius
Жыл бұрын
Jill Dando murder, exactly the same, police framed a slow guy.
This documentary has got me so mad 😠
They was a law to them selfs
Oh my god this is awful looks like they got the wrong man
@PeterBorenius
3 жыл бұрын
Don't want to arrest members of their own kids gang!!
They should go to kids homes to and ask each kid how was there time in a kids home to and lots and lots run away from homes to back in the days of SS and police just ship them from place to place to
If the grandma was killed first, how could this be because Dai was turned down for sex by Mandy
The police have realised early in the investigation that one of their own had done this and that another officer, his brother, had perverted the course of justice in helping him tidy up. Not only that, but he helped him cover up evidence whilst on duty and being paid from the public purse. The top brass knew this would lead to an inquiry into the force with consequences that could possibly lead to the force being disbanded and cost them their careers. The SIO has not released the e-fit of Lewis in order to limit any eye witness evidence accruing which could lead to a snowball effect and force them to charge him against their inclination. They have then waited several months to meticulously plan their faux investigation into the Lewis's. They've bugged their house after tipping them off, then questioned them a year later, all to ensure they could counter any claim of incompetence or criminality against them, which they would need if subsequent evidence had arisen that proved Lewis was guilty. Imagine how many people would challenge their convictions from a tainted police force if this happened, it would cost millions and cause chaos. Sometimes the truth is just too expensive and troublesome. I once met a former police officer who expressed pride that he'd never lied in court, this demonstrates how endemic the culture of criminality was in the police in the 70's through to the early 2000's, that it was a stand out achievement not to have fitted people up.
The Senior Investigating Officer Lloyd Evans is as bent as a nine bob note. David Morris's solicitor clearly had him in mind when referring to 'the most useless detective.' South Wales Police must have been scrapping the bottom of the barrel when they put him in a senior investigating position.
Does any poster know where I can watch the original documentary from BBC south wales? Someone posted a 4 part link which I started to watch. I got to halfway through the 3rd episode & they have deleted the whole lot? Maybe copyright? I don't know?
@RossJones-id4bf
9 ай бұрын
It was on sky documentaries murder in the valley it was called
@hugebrown36
9 ай бұрын
@@RossJones-id4bf Thanks for the reply I appreciate it..
And the Guildford bombing to worng doing went on there to
Wow, complicated. I feel like it was not planned out but more a reaction to an angry outburst. Also, given the up close and personal beatings, the murderer had to know the family well.
They need to prove that was said to not just one say so
Dai Morris is innocent god rest his soul! Alison Lewis is a murderer! 😡😡
i notice theres no mention of the half of an old style double handeled extendable baton was found at the sceene
Mandy Power was certainly a busy women, I'm surprised she didn't go double-pen with the Lewis brothers aswell
@tobyjackman3212
2 жыл бұрын
Why not try blaming a murder victim next time, creep - O
Im not saying all SWP are corrupt what I a saying some of SWP are corrupt....
Alison Lewis is definitely the killer in my mind. Martial arts expert (with the pole) and husbo covered her tracks. Brother in law then covered for him. Dai Morris was and is innocent. I was born and bred in Swansea but now live in Sheffield. SWP are a calamity. To Dai"s family, Debra and Janine never give up! The truth will out! Sadly though Dai won't be here to see it. Sending love to you xx
Just arrest black men shocking behaviour
I have zero respect for cops. Melbourne 2022.
The investigating officer saying extra marital affairs are not motives for murder well course not when they are police officers shockin
Free that poor man.Innocent
21:02 trip
from MOGGS - for some reason hasn't appeared! There was a sex shop murder in Swansea that I recall - two mentally handicapped yiung men were coerced into confessing - they were found guilty and jailed - they spent ten years locked up before the trial was... [overturned? ed.] : The savage sex shop murder that saw two men wrongly jailed and may never be solved www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/swansea-sex-shop-murder-sandra-16210390 Sandra Phillips was found in a pool of blood in the Private Shop in Swansea more than three decades ago but her killer has never been caught - By Sandra Hembery 5 MAY 2019 It was one of the most brutal murders ever to take place in Swansea. On June 14, 1985, sex shop manager and mother-of-four Sandra Phillips was sexually assaulted, struck about the head, and eventually strangled. Petrol was sprayed around the Private Shop in Dillwyn Street but it was not set alight. That was how the shop was found when area manager Anthony Williams called there. He arrived just before 2pm and found it closed. It was when he unlocked the door using spare keys and found Mrs Phillips in a pool of blood that a long-running murder inquiry began. An old-fashioned telephone handset, believed to have been used in the attack, and Mrs Phillips’ set of keys were missing and both have never been found. Despite exhaustive investigations over several years, and the wrongful conviction and jailing of two men, the brutal murder 34 years ago remains unsolved. The murder of Sandra Phillips may never be solvedHours after the death journalists and passers-by gathered as police began their probe. Among them were Wayne and Paul Darvell, two homeless brothers who lived in hostels by night and swigged on cider by day. The brothers were pulled in as part of the police investigation. They were well-known to the police for petty crimes but, as the questioning continued, Wayne Darvell made a series of confessions. He claimed he had been present at the murder and had seen his brother Paul carry it out, although Paul Darvell always maintained his innocence. The Darvell brothers, Paul and WayneThe Darvell brothers, Paul and Wayne (Image: Media Wales) The police’s case centred around Wayne’s confession - and the fact they had been seen by many people near the shop, with some reporting seeing them with a container which could have had petrol in it. But, despite carrying out forensic tests on the brothers’ clothes, they found no traces connecting them to what had been a frenzied attack in the blood-spattered premises. The brothers were, though, charged with murder. An eight-week trial followed and the pair were sentenced to life in prison on June 19, 1986, with a recommendation that Paul serve at least 20 years and Wayne 15. Later an investigation by BBC’s Rough Justice programme found something was not right about Wayne’s confessions. The scene outside the sex shop as police investigate the murderIt was the start of a major investigation (Image: Media Wales) He had told police he would take them to the murder weapon but no weapon was found. He showed them a charity collection box he allegedly stole from the shop but it was from a different shop. And he gave details of a St Christopher medal he said he had taken from the dead woman but she didn’t have a St Christopher. It turned out that Wayne was a serial confessor. His former teacher at a special school said he was forever confessing to things he hadn’t done. It was more than enough to cast doubt on the convictions and after spending seven years in prison the Neath brothers were released by the Court of Appeal in 1992.
no suprise the police didnt apologise
You should see old Scotland Yard to miss doing again big time to
Did you see ?
Mandy was threatened by Stephen Lewis alright, and his brother was also a policeman who was first on the scene but he did not follow the procedure as the police said. Alison knows her husband was aware of her affair with Mandy.
I believe that they still kept their jobs too! I just dont understand how or why kill the children? How could he (the real perpetrator) live with themselves. Clearly a very knowledgeable crime scene clear up. I dont believe a frenzied killer would hang about to set (4?) separate fires!
@ATtravel666
3 жыл бұрын
The police alledge that David Morris was high on drugs and fuelled by drink as well he lashed out at Mandy Power because she rejected his sexual advances. The murderer entered the house and battered to death the bed ridden grandmother. Then waited for the Mandy Power to come home and beat her to death before beating to death the two little girls. Then the killer started a fire, waited and when the killer saw the fire had not died out set a new fire. Although, I have never taken any illegal drugs of any description, I have been intoxicated by alcohol and and sometimes I have gotten angry whilst drunk (but never violent). I find it hard to believe that someone whose anger was fueled by drink and drugs could show the patience and planning necessary to do what the killer did and to follow on a 'logical' course of action. Especially waiting to check on the progress of the fire.
Leavin Steven
Nicola Williams is 😍
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