Woman wrongly suspected of murdering an entire family speaks out
29.01.2022 - 20:31
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A woman initially arrested as police investigated the murder of a family has spoken to a new documentary about her arrest over the deaths of Mandy Power, her mother Doris and daughters Katie and Emily.
Alison Lewis stated that she feared for her life after being released on police bail and lay across the floor of a car driving her away from the police station after being questioned by officers about the deaths, with mass crowds gathered in front of the building.
In a four-part documentary series about the Welsh murders, the former police officer and Mandy's lover told film-makers of her terror that her life might be about to end, Wales Online reports.
She said: "I think the pubs had just closed and everyone descended on Morriston Police station...and they wanted my blood."
"They were baying, screaming and shouting. The police covered me with equipment and blankets and things.
"There was a driver and a passenger there, and I heard him [the passenger] saying to the driver 'whatever you do don't stop. It does not matter what happens you do not stop'.
"He was frightened and I could hear the fear in his voice.
"I remember lying on the floor in the car thinking, 'I am going to die here, in the back of this car and I will not be able to prove I am innocent. I won't be able to show that I have not done this.
"I really thought that I was going to be killed."
Her memories were just some of a series of recollections which feature in Murder in the Valleys, which premieres on Sky Crime and NOW on Sunday, February 6.
The series examines the circumstances surrounding the brutal death of of Mandy Power, her daughters Katie and Emily, and mother Doris Dawson, who were killed at their home in Kelvin Road in Clydach in June 1999, before their