Damages for fit-up (1)
01 January 1991
Damages for fit-up
artdoc March=1995
A black man fitted up for possession of crack cocaine was paid
70,000 pounds damages in settlement of his claim for assault and
battery, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Anson
King, a taxi-driver, was stopped by Stoke Newington police,
arrested, strip searched, locked up and falsely charged with
possession of crack on fabricated evidence, a silver foil package
planted on him. The case was the eighth of 31 civil cases arising
out of the corruption at Stoke Newington police station in east
London. Hackney Community Defence Association says it knows of
over 90 cases against the drugs squad. Guardian, 8.11.94.
Statewatch, Vol 4 no 6, November-December 1994