 Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff West, Rhodri Morgan, later described how "the weather was absolutely scorching and sultry, which was half the problem".In 1991, tensions were raised when a dispute broke out between two shopkeepers in Ely over council restrictions over what each shop could sell.Abdul Waheed, a Pakistani-born shopowner who had opened his store at 70 Wilson Road seven years earlier, was accused by some locals of trying to put a white shopkeeper, Carl Agius, who was of Maltese descent, out of business.