Posts Tagged ‘Keith Blakelock’
Man Arrested In Connection with Keith Blakelock Murder: Broadwater Farm In Pictures
THE Murder of Keith Blakelock in the Tottenham Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 shocked. Cynthia Jarrett, 49, collapsed and died after a police raid on her home. The catalyst for a riot. PC Blackelock was hacked to death. Pc Richard Coombes survived. A 40-year-old man has been arrested over the murder. This would make the man 16 years old at the time of the killing. In 1978, Winston Silcott, Mark Braithwaite and Engin Raghip were convicted of murder. In 1991, the men were released. In pictures:
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Pc Chris Harrowing, the youngest policeman in the Hornsey Division, lays a wreath at Pc Blakelock's memorial stone at Muswell Hill roundabout in London today (Friday), on the 10th anniversary of the Broadwater Farm riots. Pc Blakelock, who was hacked to death during the riots, belonged to the Hornsey Division.
