Andrew Galloway uncovers a tale of murder in the Dyfi Forest
N A BLEAK winter’s night with the rain beating down like nails, the last people you would want to run into were the Gwylliaid Cochion Mawddwy. Half band of outlaws, half paramilitary force, during the mid-16th Century the Red Bandits of Mawddwy terrorised the inhabitants of the Dyfi Forest. So concerned were the local authorities by the actions of these rebels that they annexed Dinas Mawddwy into the county of Gwynedd in 1536,
