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How a "bent" policeman could be key to clearing a man's name, 40 years on | The Guardian

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He rang in and asked for advice about trying to clear his name. “He [barrister Daniel Barnett] said: ‘Have you ever thought of Googling the name of the officer?’ I did and was gobsmacked by what I discovered.”

What emerged was that Ridgewell had himself been convicted of conspiracy to rob mailbags from the Royal Mail, was jailed for seven years in 1980 and had died in prison in 1982. What also emerged was that Ridgewell was responsible for a series of notorious cases in which young black men were falsely accused of robbery on the London underground.