Racism, a stacked system — Nadifa Mohamed’s Booker-shortlisted novel ‘The Fortune Men’ shows not much has changed since 1952

[Deeq A.]

On September 3, 1952, a Somali man named Mahmood Mattan was hanged in Cardiff, Wales, for the murder of a Jewish shop owner named Lily Volpert. In 1998, 46 years after Mattan’s execution, following years of campaigning by his widow, Laura, a judicial review found the case against Mattan to be “fatally flawed.” These are the true facts of the case.

Source: Hiiraan Online