Pegojack
Alan Curtis
All in all, I thought the four part drama and the one-off documentary the following night did a fairly good job.
I remember the original reports of the murders and the subsequent investigation very well, being an 18 year old schoolboy in Port Talbot at the time. I used to frequent the Ferry Boat Inn but don't think I ever went there when it became Barons.
One thing that struck me in the documentary was that if the police had had computer technology at the time, they would possibly have picked up the inconsistency in Kappen's story that his car was out of commission and up on bricks at the time of the murders, which was contradicted by a routine nighttime traffic stop which logged him as driving around in the same car. Unfortunately, all they had was one poor plod checking his way through 20,000 pieces of paper, and it was missed.
I remember the original reports of the murders and the subsequent investigation very well, being an 18 year old schoolboy in Port Talbot at the time. I used to frequent the Ferry Boat Inn but don't think I ever went there when it became Barons.
One thing that struck me in the documentary was that if the police had had computer technology at the time, they would possibly have picked up the inconsistency in Kappen's story that his car was out of commission and up on bricks at the time of the murders, which was contradicted by a routine nighttime traffic stop which logged him as driving around in the same car. Unfortunately, all they had was one poor plod checking his way through 20,000 pieces of paper, and it was missed.
