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UK: Drug cases thrown out

01 September 1992

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has abandoned two recent drug cases involving police officers from Stoke Newington police station in north London. The cases against Dennis Bramble, 35, and Tony Wood, 26, were dropped at Snaresbrook Crown Court because of the unreliability of police evidence. They are the latest in a series of drug cases involving the station that have been abandoned or resulted in acquittal.

Stoke Newington police station has been the subject of a police investigation for the past eighteen months following allegations of racism and corruption, including claims that police officers were involved in the re-selling drugs seized on the street and planting evidence (see Statewatch vol 2, no 2). Eight officers have been removed from the staion since the inquiry began including Pc Ronald Palumbo who, the CPS admitted during the Wood hearing, "cannot be relied upon as a witness of truth". After his acquittal Mr Wood said:"I will have to watch over my shoulder all the time after this. That is what it is like living round here".

The latest issue of Community Defence (the bulletin of Hackney Community Defence Association) leads with the story "Police drug ring exposed" on the continuing scandal of recycling drugs, fitting up and other malpractice at Stoke Newington police station. It is available price 20p from HCDA, Unit D, 10a Bradbury Street, London N16 8NJ.

Guardian 20.6.92, 21.6.92.

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