Richard Powell
True crime. From the inside.
Thirty years in South Wales CID. The cases recorded here were not reconstructed from archives — they were worked, witnessed, and carried forward.
What thirty years in CID produces
Forensic Accuracy
South Wales Roots
Unfiltered Truth
Procedural detail drawn from active case files and Central CID practice — not reconstructed, not approximated.
Embedded in Welsh crime history across three decades — the geography, the institutions, and the communities involved.
A veteran's recall, not a researcher's summary. Where the record ends, firsthand memory begins — and is clearly marked as such.
Murder of Lynette Deborah White, 1988
In February 1988, Lynette White was murdered in Cardiff. The case that followed produced one of the most significant wrongful convictions in British legal history.
Powell draws on the original investigation — files, evidence, and the institutional decisions made inside the inquiry — to document what the public record has not fully accounted for.