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| | Observer | Silcott talks for first time about night of PC's murder |
 | | Winston Silcott, who was wrongly convicted and then cleared on appeal of hacking PC Keith Blakelock to death during the Broadwater Farm riot, today reveals for the first time what he was doing on the night of the killing - dozing in a flat in the block which overlooks the scene of the murder. |
 | | Silcott, 44, was convicted on the sole basis of a disputed confession in 1987, and was cleared four years later when the Court of Appeal heard that Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Melvin, the detective in charge of the vast murder inquiry, had fabricated his statement. |
 | | At the time of the riot and his arrest a few days later, Silcott was on bail for the earlier murder of a boxer and gangster, Anthony Smith, for which he was released from prison last October after serving 18 years. |
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