“This story is a reminder of the long history of Somali people in Britain”
THE LAST MAN TO BE HANGED IN WALES WAS Mahmood Mattan, executed in 1952. His extraordinary story was told in a recent BBC podcast, Mattan: Injustice of a Hanged Man (available now on BBC Sounds).
Mattan had been born in 1923 in British Somaliland. He took a job as a merchant seaman, and settled in Butetown, commonly known as Tiger Bay, in the