![]() However, by 1950, the couple had separated and were co-parenting and living in the same street. My father said Mahmood was just an ordinary guy, albeit a bit of a loner,” she said.Ī merchant seaman, Mahmood Mattan married paper factory worker Laura Williams in 1946 after settling in Tiger Bay, and the pair had three children together. “They were both in the Merchant Navy, but their lives took very different directions. Nadifa Mohamed said her motive for writing the semi-fictionalised The Fortune Men was to portray the real Mahmood Mattan.īoth born in what is now Somaliland, Mohamed’s father met Mahmood when the two emigrated to Hull. 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. ![]() Now, a novel inspired by his story has been longlisted for the Booker Prize. It was one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history and paved the way for the abolition of capital punishment in the UK. Mahmood Mattan was wrongly found guilty for the murder of shopkeeper Lily Volpert in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay. In September 1952, the last man to be hanged at Cardiff went to the gallows. ![]() Mahmood Mattan’s wrongful conviction has inspired a novel longlisted for the Booker Prize by Somali-born author Nadifa Mohamed. ![]()
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