Boy from Tiger Bay

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781662510489
  • Weight: 295g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 200mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2025
  • Publisher: Amazon Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A brutal murder. A blighted investigation. The true story of five men damned by a crime they didn’t commit.

On Valentine’s Day 1988, twenty-year-old Lynette White was brutally murdered in a dark corner of Cardiff’s world-famous, and infamous, Tiger Bay. Stigmatised by a bad reputation, the area was on the brink of major redevelopment which would change the historic community forever.

South Wales Police launched its biggest murder hunt to date, and within weeks detectives released a photofit of a prime suspect seen outside the murder scene, his hands covered in blood. A white man. But as the months passed by and no arrest was made, the police came under inevitable pressure.

Everyone knew John Actie. But he didn’t know Lynette White. Yet, almost a year after her death, he and four other innocent men were charged with killing her. None matched the description, and none were white. But they became the scapegoats in what some saw as a desperate attempt to close the case.

Told predominantly through John Actie’s eyes, The Boy from Tiger Bay is an explosive true-crime narrative that exposes one of the UK’s most infamous murder investigations—a story of racial injustice and the enduring fight to bring the truth to light.

Ceri Jackson is a journalist, born and raised in Cardiff, Wales.

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