‘Thirty years ago PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed in the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham, north London. Despite numerous investigations no-one has ever been convicted of his murder.’
BBC News, 6th October 2015
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‘Five children of Cherry Groce, whose shooting by a police officer led to the 1985 Brixton riots, are to sue the Metropolitan police for the damage caused to them after she was paralysed in the bungled raid almost 30 years ago.’
The Guardian, 6th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A Channel 4 docudrama that imagined a future where the UK Independence Party won the general election has been cleared by broadcasting watchdog Ofcom.’
BBC News, 18th May 2015
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‘It is five years since the schoolboy was murdered in Victoria Station. His mother Naima talks to Joshi Herrmann about that terrible day.’
The Independent, 25th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards they battled with over three weeks of anarchy that brought Strangeways to its knees.’
BBC Two, 1st April 2015
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‘Harry Woolf, the former chief justice who wrote the report on the 1991 Strangeways prison riot, says its lessons haven’t been learned.’
The Guardian, 1st April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Strangeways riot was the longest in British penal history and dramatically changed the way UK prisons were run. Twenty-five years on, four people at the centre of the siege explain their part in the drawn-out drama.’
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BBC News, 23rd March 2015
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‘Conditions in prisons are as bad now as they were at the time of one of Britain’s worst jail riots, a former lord chief justice has warned.’
The Independent, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘R (Catt) and R (T) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2015] UKSC 9. A majority of the Supreme Court has held that the retention by police of information on the Domestic Extremism Database about a 91 year-old activist’s presence at political protests was (1) in accordance with the law and (2) a proportionate interference with his right to a private life under Article 8(1) of the ECHR.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th March 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A gang of 10 men who gatecrashed a teenager’s house party in what a judge described as “the spirit of the mob” have been jailed for violent disorder.’
BBC News, 17th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Insurers have warned that proposed changes to the Riot Damages Act could lead to higher premiums or reduce access to insurance.’
BBC News, 5th August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In order for persons to have been “riotously and tumultuously assembled together” for the purposes of a claim under section 2(1) of the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 there had to have been a riot within the meaning of section 1 of the Public Order Act 1986. The trial judge had to conduct an inquiry, focusing on whether property had been damaged or destroyed as a result of mob violence, and carrying out an evaluative exercise to determine whether the assembly was riotous and tumultuous in the light of the primary facts as found.’
WLR Daily, 20th May 2014
‘Businesses whose property is damaged in riots can recover “consequential” losses stemming from the incident, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Previously it was believed compensation payable by police under the Riot Act was limited to physical damage.’
BBC News, 20th May 2014
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‘A man has been found not guilty of stabbing PC Keith Blakelock to death during the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Witnesses against a man charged with being part of a mob that hacked a police officer to death almost 30 years ago themselves took part in the attack and have been given immunity from prosecution, a jury has heard.’
The Guardian, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death in the Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham, north London, on 6 October 1985. But what caused the riots?’
BBC News, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Seven men who were detained after shots were fired at police during riots have had appeals against their sentences and convictions dismissed.’
BBC News, 21st January 2014
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“This independent review by Neil Kinghan contains a series of recommendations to reform the Riot Damages Act following the riots in August 2011.”
Home Office, 8th November 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
“A Newcastle United fan who punched a police horse when trouble flared following his side’s defeat to Sunderland has been jailed for a year.”
BBC News, 24th October 2013
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“A gang member has been jailed for life after a painter and decorator was stabbed 25 times in a London estate.”
BBC News, 18th October 2013
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