The grant forms part of the police’s attempts to make amends for BTP DS Derek Ridgewell’s actions, who targeted Black people and falsified evidence against them which resulted in their ...

British Rail workers Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet died with wrongful convictions after racist British Transport Police officer Detective Sergeant Derek ... of DS Ridgewell in 1980 for ...

"I am sincerely sorry for the trauma suffered by the British African community through the criminal actions of former police officer DS Derek Ridgewell who worked in BTP during the 1960s and '70s.

With his baby-faced looks and sympathetic manner, Derek Ridgewell came across as a model policeman. In reality the "corrupt and evil" detective was more like a character from TV’s Line of Duty.

Dishonest Scots cop Derek Ridgewell was at the centre of police stitch-ups which landed at least nine innocent men behind bars. Last week he was named at the Court of Appeal as the officer who ...