Stuart Lewis says rumours which still link him to the infamous Clydach murders have ruined his life - despite being cleared of perverting the course of justice
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An ex police officer has claimed his own force botched a murder inquiry - leading to rumours his family was involved in the killings of a mother, her two little girls and their grandmother.
Former Inspector Stuart Lewis was held in a cell for four days, interviewed 26 times and suspended for four years after being arrested for one of the worst crimes in British legal history.
Mandy Power, 34, her daughters Katie, 10, and Emily, eight and her mother Doris Dawson, 80, were found bludgeoned to death and their house set on fire in 1999.
In a storyline worthy of TV’s Line of Duty the finger of suspicion fell on Stuart Lewis, his police officer brother Steve and his wife Alison Lewis who was having a secret lesbian affair with Mandy.
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Alison and Steve were arrested on suspicion of murder, and Stuart on perverting the course of justice but all three were later cleared.
And, despite a local labourer being later convicted of the murders, some locals in Clydach, Swansea, still believe they are responsible for wiping out three generations of the same family.
Now for the first time in 22 years, Stuart Lewis has spoken about the ordeal that has ruined his life.
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