In 2003 Mahmood’s eldest son, Omar, was found dead, seemingly by suicide, on a Scottish beach. In 1996 Mattan’s family was granted permission to move his remains from the felon’s grave in the prison grounds to the Muslim section of a Cardiff cemetery.īut the trauma and fall out of this miscarriage of justice continued relentlessly damaging more lives. The Britain judiciary had killed an innocent man, a husband, and a father of three. Little comfort obviously to the hanged man himself but the record was now clear: Mattan was not guilty. Mahmood Mattan became first person in British history to have a murder conviction officially overturned after being executed. Forty-six years after Mattan’s execution, and 34 years after the death penalty was finally due to increasing public outcries and distaste, the Court of Appeal (the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales) quashed his conviction.
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