[Redbook5:106-107][19880320:1650d]{A
Dream Solution: of collapsing buildings}[20th
March 1988]
.1650
[continued]
In
a curious dream fragment of a rather disturbed night some days ago,
but during this last week,* my recurrent dreams of the collapse of
imaginary extensions to our house – one due South, one South-east**
– were suddenly explained in terms of their Circle positions. On
waking, I didn't and don't know how; but I haven't had the dreams
since.
Another
dream fragment*** involved a centre post of a house and the jointed
crossed beams it supported: but this seemed to be confused in some
way with images of the unfortunate (and obviously well-liked) young
prostitute who was recently murdered in Cardiff,**** and the area
where she worked and died, which it so happened we visited ourselves
late last Summer.
*[See
last previous entry.]
**But
I have since then discovered that there actually was
a ruinous outbuilding to the south east of the house (not connected),
which was pulled down. <880806>
***probably
on the same night
****A reconstruction of the
circumstances had been shown on television that evening.
['Lynette
Deborah White (5 July 1967 – 14 February 1988) was murdered on 14
February 1988 in Cardiff, Wales. South Wales Police issued a photofit
image of a bloodstained, white male seen in the vicinity at the time
of the murder but were unable to trace the man. In November 1988, the
police charged five black and mixed-race men with White's murder,
although none of the scientific evidence discovered at the crime
scene could be linked to them. In November 1990, following what was
then the longest murder trial in British history, three of the men
were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
In
December 1992, the convictions were ruled unsafe and quashed by the
Court of Appeal after it was decided that the police investigating
the murder had acted improperly. The wrongful conviction of the three
men has been called one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice
in recent times. The police insisted that the men had been released
purely on a legal technicality, that they would be seeking no other
suspects, and resisted calls for the case to be reopened. In January
2002, new DNA technology enabled forensic scientists to obtain a
reliable crime scene DNA profile. The extracted profile led police to
the real killer, Jeffrey Gafoor, who confessed to White's murder and
was sentenced to life imprisonment. Controversially, Gafoor received
a shorter minimum tariff (the length of time before a prisoner may be
considered for parole) than had been given to the wrongfully
convicted men.
In
2004, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) began a
review of the conduct of the police during the original inquiry. Over
the next 12 months around 30 people were arrested in connection with
the investigation, 19 of whom were serving or retired police
officers. In 2007, three of the prosecution witnesses who gave
evidence at the original murder trial were convicted of perjury and
sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. In 2011, eight former police
officers were charged with conspiring to pervert the course of
justice. Their subsequent trial was the largest police corruption
trial in British criminal history. A further four police officers
were due to be tried on the same charges in 2012. In November 2011,
the trial collapsed when the defence claimed that copies of files
which they said they should have seen had instead been destroyed. As
a result, the judge ruled that the defendants could not receive a
fair trial and they were acquitted. In January 2012, the missing
documents were found, still in the original box in which they had
been sent to South Wales Police by the IPCC.' (– Wikipedia;
introduction and summary of article 'Murder of Lynette White'.)]
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