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Death. Mahmood Hussein Mattan (1923 – 3 September 1952) was a Somali former merchant seaman who was wrongfully convicted, in the United Kingdom, of the murder of Lily Volpert on 6 March 1952. The murder took place in the Docklands area of Cardiff, Wales, and Mattan was mainly convicted on the evidence of a single prosecution witness.
The jobless ex-servicemen attacked black boarding houses and black people, says Nadifa Mohamed, a British Somali writer who is working on a book about Mahmood Mattan, “while the Somalis, among...
3 de sept. de 2022 · Mahmood Hussein Mattan, a British Somali and former seaman, was hanged at Cardiff prison on 3 September 1952 after he was wrongly convicted of murdering shopkeeper Lily Volpert, 41, at her...
3 de sept. de 2022 · The family of a father who was wrongly convicted of murder have been given a police apology 70 years after he was executed in a British prison. Mahmood Mattan, a British Somali and former...
8 de ago. de 2021 · Mahmood Mattan was wrongly found guilty for the murder of shopkeeper Lily Volpert in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. It was to prove one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British legal...
3 de sept. de 2022 · A new 9-part BBC Sounds podcast explores a shocking miscarriage of justice which led to the execution of Somali seaman Mahmood Mattan on 3 September 1952. Published: 9:00 am, 3 September 2022....
3 de sept. de 2022 · Mahmood Mattan, a British Somali and former seaman, was hanged in 1952 after he was convicted of killing shopkeeper Lily Volpert in her store in Cardiff. His conviction was the first Criminal...
