1. Discovery and identification

2. Review of convictions

3. See also

4. References

5. Cited works and further reading

Discovery and identification

In 1989, in Cardiff, Wales, two construction workers unearthed a rolled carpet while installing a garden behind a house. When the carpet was unrolled, the skeletal remains of a young female were revealed. Entomologists studied insect eggs around the discovery site and determined that the girl had been dead for approximately 10 years. When early efforts to identify the body failed, Richard Neave of Manchester University created a clay facial reconstruction of the skull. This reconstruction, along with a comparison of DNA samples from the victim and Price's parents, made the identification possible.^[3][4]

The police concluded that Price had run away from home and turned to prostitution.^[5] In 1991, Idris Ali and Alan Charlton, who were alleged to have managed her solicitation as a prostitute, were charged with her murder.^[1][6] Ali's charge was eventually reduced to manslaughter, and he was released in 1994. Charlton is still serving a life sentence.^[7]

Review of convictions

In February 2014, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the public body responsible for investigating alleged miscarriages of justice in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, referred Charlton's conviction to the Court of Appeal, stating that there was a "real possibility" that the conviction could be overturned.^[8] In March 2015, the commission also referred Ali's conviction to the appeal court,^[9] stating, "There is a real possibility the Court of Appeal will conclude that the conviction is unsafe because of the risk of the prosecution amounting to an abuse of process".^[10] It was disclosed that a number of officers from the South Wales Police who were involved in the investigation of Price's murder had also worked on the Lynette White and Philip Saunders murder inquiries, in which six men were wrongfully convicted.^[10] Other sources of concern in the Price case, according to the commission, included breaches of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and the PACE Code of Practice, which govern the detention, treatment, and questioning of persons by police officers; the credibility of the prosecution witnesses; "oppressive handling by the police of key witnesses"; and the "veracity of Mr. Ali's guilty plea".^[10]

In 2016 both men's appeals were dismissed at the Court of Appeal in London.^[11]

See also

• List of people who disappeared

References

Cited works and further reading

• {{Cite book|last= Evans|first= Colin|title= The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes|year= 1996|publisher= John Wiley & Sons Inc.|location= New York| isbn= 978-0-471-07650-6}}
• {{cite book| last = Halber| first = Deborah| title = The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases| year = 2015| publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York| isbn = 978-1-451-65758-6}}
• Murray, Elizabeth A. (2012). Forensic Identification: Putting a Name and Face on Death. Twenty-First Century Books. {{ISBN|978-1-467-70139-6}}
• Palmer, Trisha (1994). Real-Life Crimes: Forensic Mysteries. Chancellor Press. pp. 5–11. {{ISBN|978-1-851-52489-1}}

• Bătătura Cailor River
• Băuțar River
• Bățani
• Bățul River
• Bączkowski v Poland
• Bądzsław
• Bądzów
• Bąk railway station
• Będlewo
• Będziechowo railway station
• Będzin Castle
• Będzin County
• Běijīng
• Běla Kolářová
• Běleč nad Orlicí
• Bělotín
• Bělá
• Bělá nad Radbuzou
• Bělá nad Svitavou
• Bělá (Opava District)
• Bělá pod Bezdězem
• Bělá pod Pradědem
• Běstovice
• Běstvina
• Bībī Khānum Astarābādī