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Damages for fit-up

01 November 1994

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A black man fitted up for possession of crack cocaine was paid £70,000 damages in settlement of his claim for assault and battery, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Anson King, a taxi-driver, was stopped by Stoke Newington police, arrested, strip searched, locked up and falsely charged with possession of crack on fabricated evidence, a silver foil package planted on him. The case was the eighth of 31 civil cases arising out of the corruption at Stoke Newington police station in east London. Hackney Community Defence Association says it knows of over 90 cases against the drugs squad. Guardian, 8.11.94.

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