Half-century convictions linked to racist officer quashed
Two men have had their convictions posthumously quashed after almost 50 years of campaigning.
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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.
Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet were jailed in 1977 for robbing the British Rail depot and protested their innocence to their graves, as the Court of Appeal today overturned their convictions
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.