A convicted criminal who was part of the attack on PC Keith Blakelock has denied “fitting up” the officer’s alleged murderer for money.
The key prosecution witness, who had been paid a £5,000 reward for information about the murder, told the Old Bailey that he had kicked the policeman ten times when everyone “just rushed in” during rioting in 1985. PC Blakelock, 40, was hacked to death on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, North London.
The witness, using the pseudonym John Brown, is one of three men giving evidence against Nicholas Jacobs, who was nearly 17 at the time of the murder and is now 45. Mr Brown, who was jailed for 42 months for affray and burglary, yesterday said that he saw Mr