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Kim Howells burned NUM records during strike in a 'panic' |
Dr Howells makes the admission in a BBC documentary, saying he was worried the police would use the death of a taxi driver during the dispute as an excuse to raid the office of the National Union of Mineworkers' (NUM).
David Wilkie died when two striking miners dropped a concrete block from a south Wales bridge onto his taxi as he took miners to work under escort in November1984.
Although the death was not related to any union work, Mr Howells felt the police would use the incident as an excuse to raid the its offices in Pontypridd and get hold of their plans for running the strike.
South Wales Police have said they are liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service over the claims by the Pontypridd MP who was a full-time official for South Wales