The Clydach Murders by John Morris

Author:John Morris [Morris, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781723937
Publisher: Seren

Chapter 17

Fireman Neil MacPherson, who had fought the blaze at 9 Kelvin Road, told the court that in July 1999 he asked a former fire service colleague, Eric Williams, to do some building work for him at a residential property he owned in Swansea. Williams brought along Dai Morris. Over a period of two to three months while building work was going on, MacPherson and Williams discussed the Clydach murders on a number of occasions, often in the presence of Morris. During one or more of these conversations, Morris told MacPherson that he had had sex with Mandy Power a couple of days before the killings.

Police Constable Alison Crewe told the court that she was an Acting Sergeant at the time of the murders, and was one of a number of police officers summoned to Kelvin Road in the early hours of 27 June 1999. Firemen were already at the scene when they arrived. Crewe was the most senior officer present and she called Detective Inspector Stuart Lewis on her police radio, telling him he was urgently required. As soon as Lewis arrived, Crewe told him the casualties had deep cuts that were not consistent with a fire. He told her he would contact Major Crime [Support Unit] and arrange for a doctor to attend. Crewe then turned her attention to Sandra Jones and her husband Kenneth Jones, close relatives of the deceased who had just arrived in Kelvin Road, to inform them about the deaths. ‘They were obviously very distressed,’ she told the court. ‘I told them to go home as there was nothing they could do.’ But, as she was escorting them back to their car, Stuart Lewis went past her, saying he was leaving. ‘I was surprised he left the scene so suddenly,’ she said. ‘I understood many things had to be done, but it was his decision that those things had to be done from the police station.’ She said she thought the ‘situation needed a senior officer or CID’.

Constable Geraint Usher gave evidence that he had returned to Morriston Police Station in a police car with Stuart Lewis. At the police station he witnessed Lewis in the foyer talking on the public telephone. He said: ‘It was clear he was talking about the incident. But I am not aware of who he was speaking to at the time.’

Key witness Sharon Jameson testified that on the evening before the murders, she had arrived at the New Inn at about 8.30 p.m. She stayed for the next three hours and claimed to have briefly seen Morris standing at the bar having a laugh and a joke with Janice Williams’ father, Dai Sticks (he had once been a drummer in a group). The clothes he was wearing, she said, were identical to those worn by her partner, Ian Jameson – a white V-neck T-shirt and blue jeans. Morris ‘appeared to be in a good mood’, she said.

Jameson said she left the pub at about 11.30 p.m. to fetch a Chinese takeaway from Clydach just seconds after Morris had left.

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