Wednesday 11 August 2021

Mahmood Mattan

The Fortune Men cover
BBC News, Booker Prize: Novel inspired by last hanging at Cardiff prison

"Mr Mattan was posthumously acquitted in 1998 - 46 years after he was executed - when it was found evidence had been largely fabricated and manipulated by police at the time.

"Somali-born author Nadifa Mohamed said her motive for writing the semi-fictionalised The Fortune Men was to portray the real Mahmood Mattan."