It was Valentine’s Day of 1989, and a sex worker from Cardiff, Wales, vanished. Some believed she had gone into hiding, avoiding testifying a two upcoming trials that could have put her in danger. But her disappearance sparked a chain of events that saw innocent lives upended, and it would take decades before the truth finally came to light.
Sources:
South Wales Argus, 15 February, 1988 – “Murder Halts Trial”
Telegraph and Argus, 15 February, 1988 – “Hunt on”
The Independent, 16 February, 1988 – “Witness Found”
Daily Post, 20 February, 1988 – “Voice of Justice”
South Wales Evening Post, 23 February, 1988 – “Do You Know this Man?”
South Wales Argus, 16 March, 1988 – “TV Murder Appeal”
South Wales Evening Post, 18 March, 1988 – “Murder Phone”
South Wales Echo, 4 April, 1988 – “White”
Western Daily Press, 10 December, 1988 – “Brothers Quizzed”
South Wales Argus, 12 December, 1988 – “Murder Charges”
South Wales Echo, 9 November, 1990 – “Lynett”
South Wales Echo, 12 December, 1989 – “I Wasn’t at The Scene”
South Wales Echo, 10 January, 1990 – “No Prints”
South Wales Echo, 16 January, 1990 – “Boyfriend”
South Wales Echo, 23 November, 1990 – “Lynette: Three Jailed for Life”
The Observer, 3 February, 1991 – “Cardiff Three”
Wales on Sunday, 17 March, 1991 – “Hidden Alibis”
The Guardian, 21 June, 1991 – “Murder Appeal in Prostitute Case”
The Independent, 22 November, 1991 – “Who Really Killed Lynette White?”
The independent, 13 February, 1992 – “Police Reopen File”
The Independent, 16 February, 1992 – “What Happened?
South Wales Echo, 31 July, 1992 – “I Don’t Think”
The Independent, 8 December, 1992 – “Officers Criticised”
The Independent, 11 December, 1992 – “Suspect”
The Independent, 11 December, 1992 – “Three Jailed”
The Independent, 17 December, 1992 – “Police Condemned”
The Daily Mirror, 20 Janaury, 2001 – “Despairing”
Western Mail, 18 Janaury, 2002 – “The Western Mail”
South Wales Echo, 31 January, 2002 – “Second Cleared Man”
South Wales Echo, 2 March, 2003 – “Lynette Killing”
South Wales Echo, 4 July, 2003 – “Justice at Last”
The Sunday Mirror, 5 July, 2003 – “Trapped by his Nephew”
Nation, 17 October, 2024 – “Parole Board Rules”
Nation, 14 January, 2025 – “Murderer”
WalesOnline, 9 February, 2023 – “The Six Hidden Pieces”
WalesOnline, 3 August, 2018 – “Lynette White’s Killer”
WalesOnline, 4 March, 2020 – “Lynette White’s Killer”
