Jeffrey Gafoor was jailed for life for the murder in 2003 The man convicted of murdering Cardiff prostitute Lynette White has told a jury he killed her alone.Jeffrey Gafoor, 46, is a prosecution witness in a Swansea trial of eight ex-police officers accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Three men were wrongly convicted of the docklands' murder in 1988.
In 2003 Gafoor, a client of Ms White, was jailed for life for her murder. Two others deny perjury at the crown court trial.
The prosecution claim that the former South Wales Police officers manufactured evidence that led to the convictions of Ms White's boyfriend and pimp Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi - who has since died - and Tony Paris.
'Miscarriage of justice'
Continue reading the main story GRAHAM MOUNCHER (retired chief inspector) THOMAS PAGE (retired chief inspector) RICHARD POWELL (retired supt)JOHN SEAFORD (retired det con)MICHAEL DANIELS (retired det con)PETER GREENWOOD (retired det con)PAUL JENNINGS (retired det con)PAUL STEPHEN (retired sergeant)All the above deny conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Mr Mouncher also denies two counts of perjuryVIOLET PERRIAM and IAN MASSEY deny two counts of perjury.The men, who became known as the Cardiff Three, were convicted in 1990 of the murder but released from jail two years later by the Court of Appeal.Taking to the stand in Swansea, Gafoor, was asked by the prosecution if he had pleaded guilty in 2003 to Ms White's murder.
"Yes I did," he replied.
He denied knowing any of the three men who were convicted of the murder in 1990.
"I now feel that it was a miscarriage of justice," he said.
"Their problems stemmed from my actions and I feel terrible about it.
"I know that they did not have anything to do with it and that they were completely innocent because I was the one who killed Lynette White.
"All the injuries she had she received from me. There was no cover-up of the killing."
"Grasped for knife"Gafoor, who worked as a security guard, described stabbing the 20-year-old in the flat where her body was found in the docks area of Cardiff after an argument over money.
Gafoor said the last time he saw Lynette White she was lying face down on the floor "I met Lynette White for her services as a prostitute but I changed my mind and asked for my money back," he said.
"We argued and I grasped for a knife to threaten her to get my money back.
"We both had the knife. In the course of an argument I stabbed her and she was killed.
"I remember stabbing but it is all a bit vague. I mean fuzzy. I don't want to say dreamlike but it is a lot like that.
"It seemed to go on a long time. I was shouting and she was shouting back at me."
He was asked if anyone else was in the flat at the time and he replied: "No, I was the only person in the flat.
"When I last saw her she was in the flat face down on the floor."
The court has heard after her death seven months of police investigation failed to get any result so officers allegedly began to "fit up" the innocent men for the murder.
They invented a fictional scenario which was "almost entirely a fabrication and was largely the product of the imagination," the court has heard.
The former officers are accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by agreeing to "mould, manipulate, influence and fabricate evidence".
The retired officers all deny the charges.
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