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Tottenham 3 and Cardiff 3

01 March 1991

On 4 December 1990 the Home Secretary in reply to a written question to a Conservative MP announced that he intended to refer the case of Engin Raghip - one of the Tottenham Three - back to the Court of Appeal. The grounds for this decision were that the Home Secretary wanted them to consider "fresh evidence". Mark Braithwaite's lawyers have also submitted "new" evidence. "Winston Silcott's situation by comparison is difficult. It is impossible to show that his confession is the result of oppression because he never made any statement to the police. The "record" of the interview in which he allegedly "adopted a guilty posture" was never signed." In 1989 a 20 year old prostitute was brutally murdered in the Butetown area of Cardiff. For nine months the police looked for a blond white man who witnesses said was seen covered in blood in the area. But they ended up charging five black men with the murder three of whom were sent to jail for life. There was no forensic evidence to connect any of them to the blood and saliva samples found at the scene of the crime. The Campaign for the Cardiff Three is working for their release. Tottenham Three Families Campaign, 247a West Green Road, London N15 5ED. 081-809-6483. Campaign for the Cardiff Three, 56 Alice Street, Butetown, Cardiff. 0222-462821. Source: CARF No.1 February/March 1991.