Convictions posthumously quashed for two rail workers framed by corrupt police officer
by Amy-Clare Martin
Jan 18, 2024
3 minutes
Two men have had their names posthumously cleared after they were “fitted up” on the word of one of Britain’s most corrupt police officers.
British Rail workers Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet died with wrongful convictions after racist British Transport Police officer Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell accused them of theft from a site he later admitted stealing from.
Their 1977 convictions for conspiracy to steal from the goods depot where they worked were today overturned almost 50 years later after the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) referred.
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