...you're a nut administrator, you're a bent ref, you're the crazy world of Arthur Brown...
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..you're a fence foal, you're a free willy, you're a chimney bottler, you're a bunty man, you're a shrub rocketeer...
Just another form of racism.
His notoriety was such that both a 1973 BBC Nationwide documentary and a Sunday Times article referred to a calypso song heard in the pubs around Brixton: “If the muggers don’t get you, Ridgewell will.” But despite the newspapers, the documentary and even a judge showing that Ridgewell was a racist with no qualms about framing innocents, the BTP did nothing. He was neither sacked nor disciplined. He was merely moved into another job.
Wild. All these people had their lives ruined because of those officers. Had to live the rest of their lives in fear and burdened by a false conviction. I can't imagine going through that.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Word went out about what had happened to my father and all of a sudden people started to step back because they thought Dad was a criminal.” The Turkish Cypriot community was conservative and respectful of authority, Regu says.
Five years earlier, in 2013, Simmons had called a legal phone-in on LBC radio to ask for advice about his case and was told to try Googling his arresting officer.
Lambeth Community Relations Council lodged a complaint and the BTP promised an inquiry, but later said: “No evidence was forthcoming from any witness to support any allegation against any person.”
In July 2021, after three members of the Stockwell Six had their convictions quashed, the deputy chief constable of the BTP, Adrian Hanstock, made a statement confirming that the force had examined all records where Ridgewell was the principal investigating officer and “have not identified any additional matters that we feel should be referred for external review”.
Henry Blaxland KC, representing Mehmet and Peterkin, tells the court a “systemic failure” by the BTP to investigate prosecutions linked to Ridgewell led to “lamentable delays” in clearing their names.
The response, attributed to the BTP’s chief constable, Lucy D’Orsi, reads: “My colleagues and I are profoundly sorry to all those affected by DS Ridgewell’s atrocious actions and the trauma that victims and their families suffered as a result.
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