The Miners' Strike Mystery

Bonheddigion a Bonheddigesau, Ken Frane is back.

"A modern-day Dr William Price and thank God for him. He's saved a couple of babies in his time and they have reason to be grateful to him up the Llwyn residential home for the elderly”

“A lot of people have been murdered in this Valley, Mr Frane, only trouble is, it takes about 50 years to kill them off and then they are just a name in the Western Mail obituaries page”

His comrades in crime fighting still could not get their heads around the fact that he’d gone to the trouble of learning Welsh. “Welsh Speakers’ don’t commit crimes Ken” one colleague had said. “They are too comfortable and complacent.”  

Undesirables, that’s what the miners had been back in 84/85 and that’s what the homeless and the unemployed were now. The common denominator between those times? A Conservative Government and a woman in charge both times.

For some reason Canton, of all the parts of Cardiff had a higher percentage of crims. Perhaps Cowbridge Road East, the leyline that brought people through from Ely had something to do with it. Perhaps its location bordering Riverside and the Football Ground in Leckwith encouraged a rowdier and less law-abiding element but whichever way you cut it, there were a lot of crims in Canton.

 “you want to catch this killer for some reason”, those were Glyn Daniel’s last words to me. He knew that if he told me who killed Halligan that he would also die.

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