Daniel (Dan) Driscoll (1885–1928) and Edward (Tich) Rowlands (1877–1928) were two Welsh men convicted of the 1927 murder of David Lewis, a boxing champion.
The Rowland brothers (Edward and John, aka Tich and Jack) ran an established protection racket in Cardiff, when David (Dai) Lewis, a former professional boxer and rugby player decided to muscle in, and started a rival business, operating as a one-man-operation.
He was taken to Cardiff Royal Infirmary and police brought both of the Rowlands brothers and three of their cronies for Lewis to identify: Daniel Driscoll, John Hughes and William (Hong Kong) Price.
[5] The news was broken to Lewis's family not by police but by Sydney Graves, a young newspaper reporter at 12.15am.
Driscoll and Tich Rowlands gave a false alibi which when disproved, demonstrated their partial involvement, but not their guilt.
John Rowlands was found unfit to plea and was committed to Broadmoor Prison for the Criminally Insane.
[8] Driscoll and Tich Rowlands are buried in unmarked graves within the walls of Cardiff Prison.
[8] Chris and his solicitor Bernard de Maide began a renewed campaign in 1999 to posthumously pardon Daniel Driscoll.