Alan Keeling News Today

How many people did DS Derek Ridgewell fit up? The sheer scale of his depravity, and his targeting of men of colour, is only now becoming clear

Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet were convicted on evidence from the ‘dishonest, corrupt and racist’ detective sergeant Derek Ridgewell

The ex-British Rail Workers were framed and jailed by a 'clearly racist and corrupt' detective.

The workers both died with their convictions hanging over them. Each had been sentenced to nine months in prison in 1977 over the theft of parcels from the London goods depot where they worked.

Two men have had their convictions posthumously quashed after almost 50 years of campaigning.

British Rail workers Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet died without clearing their names after racist Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell (pictured) framed them for theft from a south London site.

Two British Rail workers have had their convictions for theft quashed at the Court of Appeal after they were jailed on the word of a corrupt police officer.

Two men jailed on the word of a corrupt police officer with a history of racism have been posthumously cleared at the Court of Appeal.

Convictions of Saliah Mehmet and Basil Peterkin linked to British Transport Police officer Derek Ridgewell posthumously quashed

Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet had their decades-old convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal.