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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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Scenes of crime officers in the rear garden of 16 Willan Rd, which police are in the process of digging up, on the Broadwater Farm Estate, London, after information was received that physical evidence relating to the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during rioting on the estate in 1985 may be found there. Ground penetrating radar euipment is stacked in the foreground.
