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Three people who admitted lying at the Lynette White murder case have each been jailed for 18 months for perjury.Three people who admitted lying at the Lynette White murder case have each been jailed for 18 months for perjury.
Mark Grommek, Leanne Vilday and Angela Psaila all gave evidence at the original trial almost 20 years ago.Mark Grommek, Leanne Vilday and Angela Psaila all gave evidence at the original trial almost 20 years ago.
Ms White was found stabbed to death in a flat in the docks area of Cardiff on Valentine's Day in 1988. Three men were wrongly jailed for her murder.Ms White was found stabbed to death in a flat in the docks area of Cardiff on Valentine's Day in 1988. Three men were wrongly jailed for her murder.
The judge at Cardiff Crown Court told them it was as bad a case of perjury as he had seen.The judge at Cardiff Crown Court told them it was as bad a case of perjury as he had seen.
More follows... Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris were wrongly jailed for the murder in 1990. They were later released after a hearing at the Court of Appeal cleared them.
Two other men - cousins Ronnie and John Actie - were also charged with murder along with Mr Miller, Mr Abdullahi and Mr Paris, but they were acquitted at the trial at Swansea Crown Court in 1990.
At Grommek's perjury trial in October, the jury were told by the prosecution how his false evidence led these men being charged with murder.
You were seriously hounded, bullied, threatened abused and manipulated by the police during a period of several months leading up to late 1988 Mr Justice Maddison
It became one of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice and in 1992 the convictions of the three jailed men, who became known as the Cardiff Three, were quashed and they were freed.
The real killer - Jeffrey Gafoor, a loner security guard from Llanharan, near Bridgend, who was a client of Ms White - eventually admitted the murder in 2003 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
At the sentencing on Friday, the court heard how some of the officers involved in the 1988 case were being investigated.
Jailing Grommek, Vilday and Psaila, Mr Justice Maddison said it was difficult to imagine a more serious case of perjury.
But he said: "It's been submitted on your behalf, accepted by the prosecution, and I accept it myself, you are to be sentenced on the basis all three of you were vulnerable in different ways.
"You were seriously hounded, bullied, threatened abused and manipulated by the police during a period of several months leading up to late 1988, as a result of which you felt compelled to agree to false accounts they suggested to you."
Mark Grommek lived in the same apartment block as Lynette White
Grommek, 50, originally pleaded not guilty to three charges of perjury at his trial but changed his plea to guilty after a judge said his treatment by police investigating the murder did not amount to a defence of duress.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Grommek initially said he knew nothing of the circumstances of Ms White's death.
However, in late 1988, he changed his story, saying he had seen four men outside the James Street flat.
The prosecution in his trial accepted that Grommek had been "mistreated" by the police.
Leanne Vilday and Angela Psaila did not stand trial after pleading guilty straight away.
Grommek lived above a flat in Butetown in which 20-year-old Ms White was stabbed to death in the docks area of Cardiff on Valentine's Day in 1988.
He was arrested and charged along with Psaila and Vilday in February 2007 after the case was reviewed.