Two British Rail workers jailed on word of corrupt police officer posthumously cleared
Two men jailed on the word of a corrupt police officer with a history of racism have been posthumously cleared at the Court of Appeal.
British Rail workers Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet died with convictions after British Transport Police officer Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell accused them of theft from a site he later admitted stealing from.
Their convictions were quashed by appeal judges at a hearing in on Thursday, after the men’s cases were referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) – a
