THE Tories have refused to pardon Dic Penderyn, 184 years after he was wrongly hanged in the wake of the Merthyr rising.

Labour MP Ann Clwyd is campaigning for the socialist martyr, real name Richard Lewis, to finally be cleared of allegations that he stabbed a soldier who had been sent to crush the 1831 uprising.

She presented a petition to the House of Commons in June calling for the coalminer to receive the royal prerogative of mercy (RPM).