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The Broadwater Farm riot was a riot that occurred in and around the Broadwater Farm area of Tottenham London on 6 October 1985. Substantial damage was caused and a police officer, PC Keith Blakelock, was murdered. This section may stray from the articles topic into the topic of another article: List of notable riots. ...
Tottenham is in the London Borough of Haringey. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ...
October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ...
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Police Constable Keith Henry Blakelock QGM (1945 - 6 October 1985) was a police constable in the London Metropolitan Police who was killed by a mob during the Broadwater Farm riot. ...
Origins and death of Cynthia Jarrett
On 5 October 1985 a young black man, Floyd Jarrett, was arrested by police having been stopped in a vehicle with a suspicious tax disc. Four police officers subsequently attended his home to conduct a search. In a disturbance between police and family members his mother, Cynthia Jarrett, died of a heart attack. October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (279th in Leap years). ...
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Her death, seemingly at the hands of police, sparked local outrage against the Metropolitan Police who were the subject of widespread distrust in the local black community. This stemmed from many factors. Only a week before there had been rioting in Brixton when a black woman was accidentally shot by police. Four years earlier the publication of the Scarman Report into an earlier riot in Brixton had criticised police. The local council leader, Bernie Grant issued a statement condemning the police search. The area suffered from high unemployment, high crime and poor housing. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the Home Office police force responsible for Greater London, with the exception of the square mile of the City of London. ...
The Brixton riot of 1985 started on 28 September in Brixton in South London. ...
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The Brixton riot of April 11, 1981 was the most serious riot in London of the century. ...
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Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 - 8 April 2000), known simply as Bernie Grant, was a politician in the United Kingdom, and was Labour member of Parliament for Tottenham at the time of his death. ...
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Day of disturbances The following day saw a demonstration outside Tottenham police station by local people. Outbreaks of violence between police and local youths occurred sporadically during the day and escalated, leading to the deployment of riot police who repeatedly attempted to clear the streets using baton charges. However, the youths involved in the fighting quickly organised themselves and resisted the police using bricks and petrol bombs. Later, police also alleged that there had been one or two gunshots directed at them, although nobody was ever convicted of discharging a firearm, nor was any corroborating evidence of such an incident made public. However two police officers were treated in hospital for gunshot wounds (one was seriously injured after being shot in the stomach, the other was treated for slight head wounds). Three journalists (Press Association reporter Peter Woodman, BBC sound recordist Robin Green, and cameraman Keith Skinner) were also treated after being hit by gunfire. [1] Cars were set on fire and barricades made. There was widespread looting with many police officers and local people being injured, and dozens of residents being arrested. A typical suburban police station in the United States (this one is in San Bruno, California). ...
French mobile gendarmes doing riot control. ...
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Looting (which derives via the Hindi lut from Sanskrit lunt, to rob), sacking, or plundering is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe or riot, such as during war [1], natural disaster [2], rioting [3], or terrorist attack...
Death of PC Blakelock At about 9.30 p.m. a fire broke out on the first floor of one of the estate's tower blocks. Firefighters trying to put it out came under attack and a group of police, including PC Blakelock, went to assist them. The rioting in that area was too intense for the group of police, who were not trained riot police, and they and the firefighters withdrew. PC Blakelock tripped, fell, and was surrounded by a mob who attacked him with machetes, knives and other weapons, hacking him to death. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
Police Constable Keith Henry Blakelock QGM (1945 - 6 October 1985) was a police constable in the London Metropolitan Police who was killed by a mob during the Broadwater Farm riot. ...
French mobile gendarmes doing riot control. ...
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
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The rioting tailed off during the night as rain fell and news of the death spread.
Aftermath Police maintained a substantial presence on the estate for several months afterwards, arresting and interrogating over 400 people in pursuit of PC Blakelock's killers.
The disturbances also led to several changes in police tactics and equipment, and efforts were made to re-engage with the community. Council leader Bernie Grant was widely condemned for saying, "What the police got was a bloody good hiding." The local council invested considerable resources into the estate. Today, although there are still issues of contention with the police, the area is considered to have improved markedly. Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 - 8 April 2000), known simply as Bernie Grant, was a politician in the United Kingdom, and was Labour member of Parliament for Tottenham at the time of his death. ...
Trials Six people were charged with the murder of PC Blakelock. The three juveniles had their cases dismissed by the judge after he ruled that the conditions in which they had been held were so inappropriate that they rendered evidence obtained during their interrogation inadmissable - (such conditions included being questioned whilst naked except for a blanket, and being questioned without an appropriate guardian in attendance).
The three adults, Winston Silcott, Engin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite, were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment - despite there being no witness accounts or forensic evidence linking them to the murder. As a result, campaigners led by the 'Tottenham Three are Innocent Campaign' and the 'Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign' had serious doubts about the convictions and continued to press for a retrial. Winston Silcott was one of the Tottenham Three who were convicted in March 1987 of the murder of Police Constable Keith Blakelock on the night of 6 October 1985 during the Broadwater Farm riot in north London. ...
Three years later all three defendants were found not guilty by the Court of Appeal and freed when an ESDA test demonstrated that police notes of their interrogations (which were the only evidence) had been tampered with. The defendants had spent 4 years in prison.
The officer in charge of their interrogation was later cleared of perjury.
Inquest The Coroner's Inquest into the death of Cynthia Jarrett heard from her daughter, Patricia, that she had been pushed over by Detective Constable Michael Randle which he denied. Unsually, in the case of a heart attack victim, the inquest found that Cynthia had died an 'Accidental Death' - suggesting that the jury found that something other than natural causes had led to her demise. No police officers were ever charged or disciplined for the death of Cynthia Jarrett.
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