Viewers of the popular TV series, Rumpole of the Bailey, aired between 1978 and 1992, will have noticed that whenever middle-aged barrister, Horace Rumpole appeared in London’s Central Criminal Court to defend his underdogs, he invariably wore a tightly-curled wig and a jet-black gown covering his three-piece suit. The less well informed, which includes solicitors, barristers and even judges – never mind the general populace – may consider these flamboyant articles of clothin

By now, the CCRC will have received, and no doubt read, our response to their refusal to entertain our application, asking them to review the conviction of David George Morris, and thereafter refer it to the Court of Appeal. They, or rather, the Commissioner who penned the refusal, provided three grounds justifying their decision: We did not have the family’s permission to make the application; The court does not have time to hear the application; and, That it was not in the

9 Kelvin Road, Clydach On 2 July 2026, we lodged an application with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) requesting that they investigate the case of convicted murderer David George Morris, and refer it to the Court of Criminal Appeal for his conviction to be set aside as unsafe. The application was reproduced in full and is publicly available to view at the following website under the Empowering the Innocent (ETI) umbrella: https://empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/davidm

Editors note: The text from the CCRC rejection letter is in bold below. The responses on behalf of John Morris and Paul Dalling are in red. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 October 2026 Your ref: XXXX Customer Service Officer Criminal Cases Review Commission 23 Stephenson Street Birmingham B2 4BH Dear Sirs, Re: Formal Complaint - David George Morris I acknowledge recei

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

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

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