Police apologise for wrongful conviction of man executed 70 years ago

Mahmood Mattan, a British Somali, was hanged in 1952 after he was found guilty of a murder in Cardiff

The family of a man wrongly convicted of murder has been given a police apology for the terrible suffering" the miscarriage of justice caused, 70 years after he was executed in a British prison.

Mahmood Mattan, a British Somali father of three, was hanged aged 28 in September 1952 after he was convicted of killing Lily Volpert in her Cardiff clothes store. He protested his innocence to the end.