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Key forensic evidence identified during review of Clydach Murders investigation.

In 2002, David Morris was convicted of the murders by a unanimous verdict at Swansea Crown Court. His conviction was overturned on appeal due to a conflict of interest by a defence solicitor. A retrial was held at Newport Crown Court in 2006 and Morris was convicted again. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In November 2020, legal representatives of Morris contacted South Wales Police requesting the release of various exhibits from the investigation. This request was the subject of careful consideration and the force decided on a course of action which involved the appointment of an independent senior investigating officer and an independent forensic laboratory to oversee a forensic review of the case material.

This work carried out under the banner of Operation Dolomite has been led by experienced detectives Steve Carey and Ian Ringrose, supported by police forensic expert David Lloyd, all of whom are from Devon & Cornwall Police.

An independent forensic science laboratory, Cellmark Forensic Services, was commissioned to carry out forensic work. Following the death of David Morris on 20th August 2021,

permission was given by his family to obtain a blood sample to allow forensic examinations to take place.

The Court of Appeal has refused to increase the sentence of Sam Pybus recently jailed for less than five years for choking his lover to death during sex. Three judges declined attorney general Suella Braverman’s attempt to have Sam Pybus’ sentence for killing Sophie Moss lengthened on Friday.

He was released two months ago after spending 33 years in jail for murdering two teenage girls in the 1980s.

Since then he is understood to have approached young women on multiple occasions while out on walks from the bail hostel where he was living.

He was arrested after probation staff raised concerns about his behaviour.

The disappearance of Genette Tate is a missing person case in which a 13 year old girl disappeared while delivering newspapers in Aylesbeare, Devon, England on 19 August 1978.

Despite extensive searches, Genette's body has not been found and the cause of her disappearance remains unknown. The case is one of Britain's longest missing person inquiries and has been described as a murder investigation by Devon and Cornwall Police.

Described as the oldest open case on the books of the Metropolitan Police, Mary Flanagan was a London teenager who disappeared from her West Ham home on New Year's Eve 1959.

On the day of her disappearance, she was due to attend her employer's New Year's Eve party, which was held annually in the Silvertown plant. The last known sighting of her was approaching West Ham tube station.

The following day, her family realised she had not come home the preceding evening, and Mr and Mrs Flanagan visited the sugar refinery in search of information.

In a curious twist, they were informed that she had actually been absent from work for the previous fortnight.

Mary Flanagan may have eloped with a man she had been seen with frequently in the last few weeks of 1959. He was supposedly another Irish immigrant and may have worked in the merchant navy, although police say they have never been able to trace such a man.

He was called Tom and undoubtedly existed under one name or another. There have been no sightings of Mary since 31 December 1959.

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William Tyrrell's foster mother is being treated as a person of interest in his disappearance as the search for the boy's remains continues around the NSW property, he was last seen in 2014.

It comes as a car belonging to William's now-deceased foster grandmother at the time he went missing was also seized from a home at Gymea, in Sydney's south, under a coronial order last Tuesday.

The vehicle, a grey Mazda hatchback, is undergoing forensic analysis, which is expected to take several weeks. The car has changed ownership since the woman died in March. "This activity relates to inquiries and search operations currently being conducted in the Kendall area," NSW Police said in a statement.

William, at the time aged three, disappeared from the foster grandmother's property on Benaroon Drive in Kendall at about 10.30am on September 12, 2014.

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On the 7th of February 2021 Sophie Moss, 33, was found unconscious at home in Darlington, County Durham, she later died in hospital.

Sam Pybus - who was married but had been seeing Ms Moss for three years. The 32-year-old had previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

On 6 February he had drunk 24 bottles of Amstel lager over 10 hours and drove to Ms Moss's flat after his wife went to bed.

At 04:43 GMT the following morning he drove to Darlington police station and told staff he believed he had strangled Ms Moss.

He said that during sex he would apply pressure to her neck, "an act he said she encouraged", but added he would never hurt her.

Sam Pybus who has been jailed for four years and eight months at Teesside Crown Court after he admitted to the manslaughter of Sophie Moss.

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The Murder of Ruth Williams (The Sustained Violent Attack That Ended Ruth Williams' Life (UK - 2020) and the Shirley Oaks Childrens home (A Viper's Nest of Paedophiles (UK - 2020)

"He only get five years" he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility and was acquitted of murder. His defence argued that he acted due to his mental state, which had been worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 28 March 2020, 70-year-old Anthony Williams of Cwmbran, Wales, strangled his 67-year-old wife Ruth to death.

The following February, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility and was acquitted of murder. Ruth Williams died due to pressure to the neck and had three fractured bones Ruth was found slumped on the porch of her home in the Hollybush area of Cwmbran.

Anthony Williams was found not guilty of murder in a unanimous verdict. The following February, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility and was acquitted of murder. His defence argued that he acted due to his mental state, which had been worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lord Justice Bean, sitting with Mrs Justice Farbey and judge Paul Sloan QC, described the killing as a “very atypical” case of homicide, and dismissed the AGO’s application. His five years sentence was not extended.

The starting point for a manslaughter sentence is between one and seven years, rising to life imprisonment at maximum.

Due to the sustained nature of the attack, he would have faced seven-and-a-half years, but this was reduced to five years due to his guilty plea.

As all prisoners in England and Wales are released at the halfway point of their sentence, he will be released in two-and-a-half years, less the eleven months he had already spent on remand.

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The inquiry heard that hundreds of children were subjected to prolonged sexual, physical, and racial abuse and that paedophiles targeted the Shirley Oaks Children’s home campus in Croydon, London which could house up to 350 children until its closure in 1983.

Victims were "drugged, tortured and sexually assaulted" by "very many paedophiles", the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was told.

Council staff “put vulnerable children in the path” of sex offenders, who infiltrated children’s homes and foster care, with “devastating, life-long consequences for their victims”, this damning report into decades of abuse has found.

Employees in the south London borough of Lambeth “treated children in care as if they were worthless” and appeared to demonstrate “a callous disregard for the vulnerable children they were paid to look after”, according to the findings of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). It heard evidence of children being raped, indecently assaulted, and sexually abused, but said that of complaints from 705 former residents across three such facilities, only one member of senior staff was ever disciplined.

When children reported complaints at the time, they were routinely disbelieved. The report estimated the number of those abused was likely much higher and recommended the Metropolitan Police should consider whether there were grounds for a criminal investigation into one boy who died in a care home in 1977, having previously complained of being abused by a senior member of staff.