"The expose of vile police discrimination at Charing Cross police station comes just three years after the last expose at the same station (Met plunged into crisis amid fresh claims of misogyny and racism, 1 October). This experience confirms that unless there is full accountability for police discrimination, the behaviour will simply carry on. The failure to have accountability is part of the institutional discrimination highlighted in the Casey review."
"Over the past seven years, 13 convictions have been quashed at the court of appeal victims of the racist, corrupt British Transport Police officer Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell's squads in the 1970s. There will be more cases. Ridgewell was imprisoned for seven years in 1980 for conspiracy to steal goods from the very depot at which he had prosecuted several British Rail employees for the same offence three years earlier."
"We represent several family members of those fitted up by Ridgewell, whose fathers did not live to see their exonerations. They are calling for a change in the law that when a police officer is imprisoned, an automatic order is made as part of the sentence to review their files for miscarriage of justice cases. If that had been done in 1980, it would have avoided decades of misery for Ridgewell's victims."
An expose of discrimination at Charing Cross police station repeats an incident from three years earlier, demonstrating that misconduct persists without full accountability. The failure of accountability forms part of institutional discrimination identified in the Casey review. A long history of police racism includes Derek Ridgewell’s corrupt British Transport Police squads, with 13 convictions quashed in recent years and more expected. Ridgewell was imprisoned in 1980 for conspiracy to steal goods after prosecuting others for the same offence. Families of the wrongly convicted call for a legal change requiring automatic file reviews when officers are imprisoned.
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