LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

PC Blakelock murder convictions quashed

Genre

News report

TX Date

5 Dec 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:00:38

Description

Tim Crook reports from the Court of Appeal in London following the acquittal of the three men (Winston Silcott, Mark Braithwaite and Engin Raghip) convicted of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm riots in London in 1985. The appeal judges apologised to the men.

Contributors

Tim Crook

Keywords

London; Police; Homicide; Riots; Policing practice; Legal decisions; Trials; Appeals; Verdicts; Keith Blakelock; Broadwater Farm; Tottenham; Miscarriages of justice; Courts of Appeal; Winston Silcott; Mark Braithwaite; Engin Raghip; Courruption

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