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Broadwater Farm 3

01 September 1991

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The Home Secretary, Kenneth Baker, has announced that there will be a police inquiry into allegations that officers faked evidence that led to the convictions of two men for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985. He has also asked that the inquiry should include electrostatic document analysis (Esda) tests of interviews with Winston Silcott and Mark Braithwaite. Defence lawyers have condemned the decision not to refer the cases directly back to the Court of Appeal and accused the Home Secretary of stalling. They point out that supporters have recently had Esda tests carried out on Silcott's interviews at a Metropolitan Police Laboratory and that they showed that crucial passages had been added. The third man convicted of Blakelock's murder, Engin Raghip, had his case referred to the Court of Appeal in December 1990. Home Office news release, 25.7.91; Independent, 26.7.91.

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