And believed in the system, right up until the trap door sent him to the afterlife. So much wrong in this case, not even circumstantial evidence, no credible witness, prejudiced legal system, a distinct lack of defence and defence witnesses the system failed him. It did right that wrong, but it took years and shamefully he was not there to witness it, the only good thing, if you can call it that is his widow and children got to see the record set straight and his body moved to a proper place. British justice, best in the world, I don't think so unless you have money, position and power, as an ordinary person you are the mercy of whatever you either can afford, or are 'granted', to think this was only 70 years ago is outrageous really.

@@johndawkes7339 unfortunately there are still many societies where this is still the case.

I don't like wife. They had freedom then she missed family so she brought them back into place they couldn't be with one another. I wonder why.

I have never seen such eloquence in regards to the case.

Change InTheAir His wife didn’t like it either. She missed her family and I believe she wanted her children to know their grandparents. Maybe she hoped things would get better. You have to understand, it was very different in the 1950’s.

His crime was marrying outside of his race, that's why the police and his lawyer didn't do their jobs properly. Bloody disgraceful. They didn't even consider that they were allowing a murderer the chance to strike again.

As long as they can hang ‘someone,’ They can close the case and send everyone home. Close the books on this one! Especially if it’s a poor, unimportant soul. Oh, and a person of color. Well, let’s close the case. Eh?

They didn't care. To them case close and a Black Man convicted.

The Stupidity of the British legal system never fails to anger me. There were so many people arrested and convicted on zero evidence at the time and the judges always executed them. No chance of appeals after the death of the innocent. This could possibly be why there are so many steps in the appeals process in the US before executions take place. If an innocent person is at first convicted , there is a way and time to find and present proof of innocence before the execution can happen.

@@gailhandschuh1138 I copied this from Google for you and others. Interesting statistics. I was curious myself how many sit on death row without being put to death. Most use the appeals process that lasts for years until theyve exhausted all avenues. Which is a good thing I suppose, but I don't speak for those who are seeking swift justice for their loved ones who were victims in cases where guilty verdicts, beyond reasonable doubt, fit the murder / crime. Google: Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 28 states, the federal government, and the military.. Since then, more than 7,800 defendants have been sentenced to death; of these, more than 1,500 have been executed. A total of 165 who were sentenced to death since 1972 were executed.

Thanks for listening and for the comment, we should never forget cases of Injustice such as this

May God bless him with peace and rest

what set a black man free to kill a black man?

It was the testimony of another black man that had him hanged

T Wallace - it was the testimony of a fellow black, a Jamaican that got him convicted and the crime was actually committed by another Somalian, these people were foreigners to United Kingdom and tend to look similarly. Source, wikipedia@ His trial took place at the Glamorgan Assizes in Swansea in July 1952. The main witness for the prosecution was Harold Cover, a Jamaican with a history of violence, who later received a share of a reward of £200 (equivalent to £5,797 in 2019) offered by the Volpert family. Cover claimed to have seen Mattan leaving Volpert's shop, though it later emerged that he had previously identified another Somali living in the area at the time, Taher Gass, as the man he had seen. 1954 Taher Gass was convicted of murdering wages clerk Granville Jenkins. Gass was found insane and sent to Broadmoor; after his release he was deported to Somalia. In 1969 Harold Cover was convicted for the attempted murder of his daughter, using a razor. Mattan's middle son, Omar was found dead on a Scottish beach in 2003, and an open verdict was returned

LadyMuck - and Taher Gass, a fellow Somali was later convicted of the murder but he was found to be insane and deported in 1969, 17 years later back to his country.

The murderer was also a black man. Your racist comment is illogical.

Other people also did not pick him out of a line-up, stating that it was not him

@@Saffron-sugar That has little to do with this comment..

@@juuk3103 It shows that other people besides his family and the 12 year old were interested in the truth.

@Annie 1986 great but they were in love and its like they were proving a point to go back sometimes people sacrifice themselves rather they know it or not for better opportunities for other people in their situation

@Annie 1986 Which somali man set him up? where are your sources? There was no justice for Mohamoud Mattan only the police and the biased justice system is to blame for his demise there was no credible witnesses in this case and nobody picked him out in the line up ,there wasn't even any circumstantial evidence so stop making excuses and stop victim blaming. The family was forced to be divided if they were truly not united she and their children wouldn't stand behind him decades after his execution and work so hard to get the guilty verdict overturned.

Agree!

Very frustrating! 😡😡😡

@yasmine ayub I don't know about hidden. I'm from the States (not sure how many viewers of this channel are from other nations) and it's pretty obvious to most here that the law enforcement and criminal justice systems don't like brown people very much.

Definitely heart breaking to me 💔

Yasmin, you are so right! Maybe this makes people award of things actually going on around them today.

Yes you are correct - The Timothy Evans case was recently covered by The Crime Reel

Hanged though that’s crazy ! Because he was black ☹️

Rest in Peace both of them

I know. It's just awful at how he was let down in the worst way possible.

@@tootsie3612 yes Sherry, his heart must have sank when the verdict came through. I was surprised myself, wasn't expecting that, terrible.

British law sucks until today!

Only one that seemed to lie is the black guy - dang I forget where he was from - who said he say a guy with mustache and gold tooth departing from the store of killed women. Yet Mahmood Hussein Mattan had neither - framed by killer.

@Karla Kirkpatrick Even though I filled all of the criteria, if you add in female working class must have enticed, wrong place etc it does not always work like that. However, I get your point, have always been incensed by cruelty and injustice and genuinely wish you well Friend.

@bianca prince I can't stress it enough how true this is.

@Karla Kirkpatrick what's a Protestant got to do with this case, I take it you're a Catholic going by you're name, .British Protestantism is nothing to do with this ya Muppet.

"the people who lied in court need to be held accountable for his death" Judging the dead is outside our domain. All we can do is learn from history and not run away from it.

Couldn't agree more. Both should have been sentenced to an appropriate prison term in addition to losing their positions.

So they never did find out what really happened. No reason? The police should have done more.

@@sandracothren3646 the police conspired against him with the rest of the hyenas that ate him from Harold Cover to the judge who sentenced him.

And his children.

@@maryapatterson The tragedy did not stop there for this family. One of his son was found washed up in a Scottish beach presumed suicide, the other died of alcoholism. It turns out the children were harassed, hounded abused on a daily basis whilst growing up because of being the product of mixed raised and the sons of a condemned murdered, His wife cleared him for fighting for 40years for the verdict to be overturned. Even though they knew this was a miscarriage of justice they wanted to sweep it under the carpet.

Which, does nothing....

@@afroatheist-isnowafroantit6154 it meant something to her

Well hell yeah if she wasn't so hard harted to move to a place knowing full well the problems.. she had a hand in his troubles. He doesn't deserve after he went out his was even renting two separate homes selfish thinking woman

Yep, just like George Floyd.

A "sorry" after hanging him unjustly is not saving him. Think of the devastation to this family, the death of two of his children -- and probably as a direct result of this injustice -- their not being able to live lives free of harassment, prejudice and bullying. There's nothing to cheer about here. Bet no money was offered to them for this travesty of justice.

Thanks :)

Agree with all you said🌺

Sadly this still happens all too often. 😭

His name was cleared because his children and his loving wife never gave up on clearing his name. The system wanted the case to stay buried.

Wife is the best jury 😔

Yes. Historical sickening trend still happening today!

Well not in the UK. We no longer have the death penalty which is a relief!

@@maryapatterson I'm sure though there r miscarriages of justice. We just don't hear about it.

@@vixenuk2609 There are miscarriages of justice everywhere in all countries. Thats just a default.It was one of the reasons why we gave up the death penalty in the UK. Putting to death the wrong women and men for the wrong reason! The last hangman in Britain at the end of his life, said it was nothing but pure revenge.

Yes it does. It even happens to white people shock and horror. There is a very good reason it happens to people of all nationalities. First the cops round up the usual suspects and go from there. The crime is made to fit the defendant. Simply because, a KPI for a copper is convictions, as with the prosecuter.

@@notsousual2938 What? 🤬🤬

@Akira Kurosawa , what the hell are you talking about?!

Especially in the US, where guilt is irrelevant, as long as they get a conviction that is all that matters. And the perpetrators go unpunished.

marybennett100 how many others? Sadly too many.

that time is just a seriously horrible time for justice 😢

Because islam needs 2 women to prove the evidence

That's a great idea!

Bullseye comment, Jennifer. Add greedy liars tempted by a reward to your list. My first comment on this channel despite being a subscriber for a long time. Great job in getting me riled up, Mr. Brief Case. Keep 'em coming.

@@colinwjw Thank you, absolutely,congratulations, and Way to go, BC, think of this persons blood pressure!

@@jamessullivan1348 Came up with it all by myself, too!

@ΑγαΡy they're all long dead now. We should be taking reparations. 🙄

Yes it is

"There were two murder victims in this; the old lady - and Mahmood." Yes! I've heard more than one person make fairly cavalier comments in regard to innocent people being punished for others' crimes - but what the "law and order" crowd doesn't seem to understand is that executing an innocent person means that the killer has another victim on their list - and meanwhile the real killer is still at large.

Tnoy blair and bush did the same in our life time and people were racist towards iraqis still

how about the victim she the one who died horrible and everyone stated it was a tall man with mustache hello

Steve Flanigan...that's true, my grandpa was murdered in the 1960's & the police didn't even bother to look for suspects...no arrest was ever made they just said a tree branch hit him on the neck & killed him!!!!!

Karla Kirkpatrick incidentally i write “Allah” for his benefit not for mine. It causes no issue for me, for it is a word cognate with other ancient Semitic words such as the Hebrew El, Elyon found in the Hebrew/Aramaic scriptures. It is not (as fundies claim) a moon- god name. Perhaps he recited the Shahada before he died, perhaps not.

naylte fa thank you - i was sincere in the invocation of that name, i would not use it lightly.

I think he could have been railroaded by the actual killer. BUT I am not sure his wife really loved him, due to dragging him back into situation where they couldn't live together again.

Thanks for listening :)

Morning, Crime Reel!

Crime Reel and Brief Case, I love how you gentlemen support each other's work and recommend videos of other KZfaq channels like Forgotten Lives and Mortis Media!! I adore you all! Thanks for providing me with excellent entertainment and getting me through the darkest hours of the night! ❤️🌅❤️🌃❤️🌄

@@kacielewter7292 I love how you called us gentlemen, cheers for that

By the same token guilty killers, with enough $, can be let off Scott free.

At that time, did you stay a scene crime

The children are the ones who proved him innocent, the family never gave up in clearing their fathers name.

A.J Kleipass Sadly the children didn't have a good life either. Two died tragically, one drowned in a sea which was said to be suicide and the other died of alcoholism which was a result of being hated,humiliated,abused and bullied over the years. They were seen and treated as children of a "murderer"

@marwanmohd1 Thanks for sharing

@@sadiyasaleh233 How very sad. I hope they were able to find a measure of peace🙏💔

@@sadiyasaleh233 It's very sad 😢😭😭😢

Happening to my son's today. Absolute disgrace, and yet things ain't changing😞

Well done your Nan but I am sorry that she passed away before the verdict was overturned, it is so difficult to get people exonerated posthumously so the people that fought for justice in this case all did an excellent job

Thank you for this really sad case. Awesome narration! Sorry i'm later, but you know work... You had 6 ads. Will rewatch more of your videos, as always. Be safe.

Thankyou

@@BriefCaseOfficial No mention. Thank you!

Where was Jesus to help him?

No evidence that he ever existed.

Afro Atheist you are an atheist so why ask redundant questions?

Disgrace. Don't feel angry, the evil are upstairs with the the fella with the horns. 😈

Thankyou so much, the bang is something that I took away and got lots of requests to bring it back, I will do another video soon without them to see the reaction, thanks for your feedback

Melanie, Hello. I love crime shows and history as well.

@@BriefCaseOfficial Just to give additional feedback on that, I think having a sound punctuate and break up sections is good and important for videos like yours where there isn't a lot of stuff happening on screen and it is mostly your voice narrating something-- not that you need to do any more with that, people just have short attention spans and that kind of thing can give structure without having to invest a lot of time. I do think the sound is a bit too loud, probably worse if you're wearing headphones. So maybe try turning it down a little, and/or having other similar sound effect in its place. I enjoyed this video and your others. Thanks for telling these stories!

@@clvrswine perfect answer Dan

@@BriefCaseOfficial i like the bangs

Plenty of innocent white men have been convicted and put to death too, you know.

Amazing Grace miss do you think In this case if Mahmoud was a white man with such little to no evidence would have been ruled to be hanged am not saying no white person went through something similar to such injustice but no one has ever been through injustice like black people in the hands of white men, I pray you see the problem.

@@najwa7758 lmaoo the coward didn't even respond. Because he can't say that the same would happen to a white man with no evidence

@@amazinggrace3207you're right but I can't think of one white man executed because his skin colour made him less believable.

Thanks

Thankyou :)

Thankyou so Much :)

Thank you

Yes!!! My grandparents are from Wales and I seem like a Welsh personality, as far as I can tell

@John Bryan Too true

Elizabeth Sohler , as a 16 year old I was asked by a policeman if I would appear on a line up at Barnet (north London) police station, all of us had dark hair, apart from one ginger haired kid, in came a chap all bandaged up, he went straight to the ginger kid and pointed him out, lm 73 now.

@@greatunwashed1856 That's terrible .

Yes it sounds like a family day out!

I felt the same way. He committed no crime other than falling in love with a woman of another race. And, the injustice continues today. We haven't learned anything from our Past.

@@fadeblac5633 . Falling in love with another race is no crime.

Well said. Here in 2020 we are not to forget Mahmood Hussein Mattan's name.

Year 2020 and still going strong!! Sadly your complexion can be a death sentence!!🥴

But they did get home together when they moved out of area. Then wife missed family and dragged him back to area not keen on mixed married living together. I question her wanting to live with him. Maybe not a good guy?

@@normanollie4409 Yeah and now being seemingly white can get you killed.

Change InTheAir no one cares about that though

@@changeintheair9648 Always a possibility.

He believed in a system that saw him less then they were, that was his mistake.

Why were you surprised?