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Stoke Newington police lose another case

01 May 1993

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Another man, charged with possession of dangerous drugs, by officers at Stoke Newington police station, has been cleared at the Court of Appeal. Thirty-three year old Cyrus Baptiste's conviction for possession of crack was overturned after he claimed that officers from the station had planted the drug on him. Earlier this year two other men, charged with drug offences in separate incidents around the same time, were also acquitted. In all of these cases the credibility of the police officers has been thrown into question following an investigation into corruption at the station (see Statewatch Vol.2 No.2 & 4).

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