![]() ![]() Police were later discovered to have paid the key witness on whose testimony the case against him stood. ![]() ![]() He was arrested within hours of the murder and convicted in spite of having alibis confirmed by four separate witnesses. Mahmood, as he’s referred to by Mohamed throughout, was a Somali seaman, father of three and resident of Butetown, Cardiff, who, in 1952, then in his late 20s, was hanged after being convicted for slitting the throat of pawnbroker and moneylender Lily Volpert. F ollowing the success of her 2010 debut, Black Mamba Boy (winner of the Betty Trask prize), and its follow-up, 2013’s The Orchard of Lost Souls (winner of a Somerset Maugham award and the Prix Albert Bernard), Nadifa Mohamed’s third book, The Fortune Men, a fictionalised retelling of the story of Mahmood Mattan, one of the last men to be executed in Wales and for a crime he didn’t commit, confirms her as a literary star of her generation. ![]()
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