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Were the Clydach murders a 'massacre'?
9 Kelvin Road, Clydach. In his opening statement to the jury in the trial of David George Morris at Swansea Crown Court in 2002, prosecuting Counsel, Patrick Harrington QC, described the murders as a massacre, before he was ordered to tone his language down. But Patrick Harrington was right. Given the extreme nature of the violence used, and the catastrophic nature of the victims’ injuries, ‘massacre’ was certainly the appropriate choice of word. Only it was a massacre that
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Aug 214 min read


David Morris case: Suspicions continue running high
Mandy Power with daughters Katie (10) and Emily (8) More than a quarter of a century has passed since that terrible night of 26/27 June 1999 when four innocent females, three generations of the same family, were brutally murdered in their own Clydach home. Elderly disabled Doris Dawson (80), her attractive divorcee daughter Mandy Power (34) and her two young daughters Katie (10) and Emily (8) were viciously battered to death with a ferocity that defies comprehension. Convicte
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Aug 105 min read


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Jul 130 min read


#1 New application submitted to CCRC for David 'Dai' Morris at 7.45 p.m. on the 2 July 2026
David 'Dai' Morris with two of his daughters A new application was submitted to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in challenge of the conviction of David ‘Dai’ Morris for the Clydach Murders (i.e. the murders of Mandy Power, 34, her mother Doris Dawson, 80, and her daughters Katie, 10, and Emily, 8, at some time between 7.30 p.m. on Saturday 26 June 1999 and 12.25 a.m. on Sunday 27 June 1999). Application submitted by John Morris and Paul Dalling, authors of: Force
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Jul 41 min read
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