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Posthumous pardon requested for hanged Welsh miner Dic Penderyn
Posthumous pardon requested for hanged Welsh miner Dic Penderyn
Welsh miner Dic Penderyn was hanged nearly 200 years ago.
ITV News has learned that a posthumous pardon is to be formally requested for a Welsh miner hanged nearly 200 years ago.
Richard Lewis, better known as Dic Penderyn, was sentenced to death for stabbing a soldier in the Merthyr uprising of 1831.
People at the time protested his innocence and his case has been cited as a grave miscarriage of justice for generations.
Watch Tom Sheldrick's report:
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-05-20/posthumous-pardon-requested-for-hanged-welsh-miner-dic-penderyn/#
