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The Clydach Murders

Late on June 27th and early June 28th 1999 Mandy Power, aged 34, her daughters Katie, 10, and Emily, eight,and their grandmother Doris Dawson, 80, were killed at their Kelvin Road home in Clydach.

First the killer entered the victims’ home, went upstairs and smashed a heavy fibreglass pole repeatedly into the face of 80-year-old invalid grandmother Doris Dawson.

When Mandy and her daughters arrived home, they were killed in an identical, sadistic fashion.

The killer set fire to incinerate all trace of their actions.

Three years after the crimes, builder David Morris, now 57, was handed four life sentences for killing Mandy, 34, and her family. His case was quashed on appeal, but in 2006 Morris was found guilty for a second time. Morris was given a whole-life sentence, however, in July 2007 it was reduced to 32 years in prison. Morris has always pleaded his innocence.