Mattan: Injustice of a Hanged Man BBC Radio Wales

Mahmood Mattan was hanged for a murder he didn't commit.
70 years on, and his execution continues to reverberate in Cardiff, and beyond.
His surviving family still have so many unanswered questions -
and one grandchild embarks on a journey to try to find answers.
Finally, the police issue an apology for its role in the miscarriage - but will the family ever find peace?
Presenter and Producer: Danielle Fahiya
Sound Design: Cathy Robinson
Original Music: Rhodri Llewellyn John
Executive Producers: Karen Voisey and Andy Maguire
Story Consultant: John Norton
Production Manager: Andrea Deere
History Consultant: Chris Phillips.
Archive: BBC Black Britain; ITV Wales
Mahmood Mattan - Ali Goolyad
Laura Mattan - Zoe Davies
Scottish newspaper journalist - Ian Dunnett Jnr

Mahmood Mattan was hanged 70 years ago for a murder he did not commit.
The aftermath of his execution has run deep through the Mattan family.
All three of his sons faced years of prejudice because of what happened to their father:
lives changed forever by an injustice committed by the State.
And in the end, it was too much for them.
Presenter and Producer: Danielle Fahiya
Sound Design: Cathy Robinson
Original Music: Rhodri Llewellyn John
Executive Producers: Karen Voisey and Andy Maguire
Story Consultant: John Norton
Production Manager: Andrea Deere
History Consultant: Chris Phillips.
Archive: BBC Black Britain; ITV Wales
Laura Mattan; newspaper journalist; Yasmin Fahiya - Zoe Davies
Scottish newspaper journalist - Ian Dunnett Jnr
Eddie Mattan - Dean Rehman
David Mattan - Anthony Corria

Mahmood Mattan's family received a six-figure compensation pay-out after his conviction for murder was quashed - but it didn't bring them the peace of mind they craved.
The "blood money" brought with it its own problems, as his sons increasingly struggled to cope.
And that was compounded by a police re-investigation which failed to identify any "new lines of enquiry". Lily's killer would never be found.
Presenter and Producer: Danielle Fahiya
Sound Design: Cathy Robinson
Original Music: Rhodri Llewellyn John
Executive Producers: Karen Voisey and Andy Maguire
Story Consultant: John Norton
Production Manager: Andrea Deere
History Consultant: Chris Phillips.
Archive: BBC Black Britain; ITV Wales
Dean Rehman - Eddie & David Mattan
Ian Dunnett Jnr - Newspaper reporter and procurator fiscal

Desperate to clear Mahmood Mattan's name, his family have one last throw of the dice.
It works - and finally his widow and three sons have their day in court.
Forty six years after Mattan was hanged, a series of revelations are made which seriously undermine the case against him.
And, explosive new evidence emerges which points the finger at who the real killer could be.
Presenter and Producer: Danielle Fahiya
Sound Design: Cathy Robinson
Original Music: Rhodri Llewellyn John
Executive Producers: Karen Voisey and Andy Maguire
Story Consultant: John Norton
Production Manager: Andrea Deere
History Consultant: Chris Phillips.
Archive: BBC Black Britain; ITV Wales
Zoe Davies - Laura Mattan
Dean Rehman - Phillip Mattan; and Eddie Mattan

For years, Mahmood Mattan's family believed in his innocence. But no-one would listen.
Then in 1969, a shocking revelation - another vicious attack which bore many of the hallmarks of the murder of Lily Volpert.
And the man responsible for that attack was also a vital witness in the case against Mattan.
Finally, could the family prove once and for all that Mattan was an innocent man who should never have been sent to the gallows?
Presenter and Producer: Danielle Fahiya
Sound Design: Cathy Robinson
Original Music: Rhodri Llewellyn John
Executive Producers: Karen Voisey and Andy Maguire
Story Consultant: John Norton
Production Manager: Andrea Deere
History Consultant: Chris Phillips.
Archive: BBC Black Britain; ITV Wales
James Callaghan, Edmund Davies & Melbourne Thomas - Richard Elfyn
Tom Driberg & Rhys Roberts - Rhys Downing
Harold Cover - Anthony Corria
Margaret Bush - Zoe Davies
David Wickham - Dean Rehman

After Mahmood Mattan was hanged, his wife Laura was left alone to bring up three young children.
She had little, or no, support; and moved her family to a new area of Cardiff where she hoped to start a new life.
But some people wouldn't let her forget that she had been married to a man convicted and hanged for murder.
She faced abuse and was ostracised; her young family suffered the most terrible cruelty and humiliation.
But the trauma that she and her three sons endured didn't end there.
It continues to be felt even today by the generations of their family that followed.
Presenter and Producer: Danielle Fahiya
Sound Design: Cathy Robinson
Original Music: Rhodri Llewellyn John
Executive Producers: Karen Voisey and Andy Maguire
Story Consultant: John Norton
Production Manager: Andrea Deere
History Consultant: Chris Phillips.
Archive: BBC Black Britain; ITV Wales
Laura Mattan - Zoe Davies
Newspaper journalist & Insp Harry Power - Richard Elfyn
2nd newspaper journalist - Dean Rehman