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PC Blakelock trial date set
A provisional trial date has been set at the Old Bailey for a 44-year-old man charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985.
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Provisional date set for Blakelock murder trial
A provisional trial date has been set at the Old Bailey for a 44-year-old man charged with the murder of Pc Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985.
Nicholas Jacobs is accused of killing the 40-year-old officer, who was stabbed as he tried to protect firefighters tackling a blaze at a supermarket at the height of the unrest in Tottenham, north London.
Jacobs appeared at the court via video-link from Belmarsh prison in south east London, and a provisional trial date was set for March 4 next year.
Blakelock murder suspect due at Old Bailey on Friday
Nicholas Jacobs, 44, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday after being charged with the 1985 murder of PC Keith Blakelock during riots in Tottenham, north London.
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Blakelock murder suspect remanded in custody
Nicholas Jacobs has been remanded in custody until Friday by Westminster Magistrates' Court after being charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock.
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Man charged with murder of police officer killed in 1985
Blakelock family 'have never given up hope' for justice
Relatives of PC Keith Blakelock released a brief statement through police after a man was charged with his murder:
Blakelock investigation continues, 28 years on
PC Keith Blakelock died during riots on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, north London, on 6 October 1985.
Twenty-eight years later, a new suspect - 44-year-old Nicholas Jacobs - has been charged with the officer's murder.
- PC Blakelock, 40, was stabbed to death as he tried to protect firefighters tackling a blaze at a supermarket at the height of the unrest
- Three men - Winston Silcott, Mark Braithwaite and Engin Raghip - were convicted in March 1987 of Blakelock's murder
- All three convictions were quashed four and a half years later, after forensic tests on pages of key interview records suggested they had been fabricated
- Scotland Yard reopened the murder investigation in 2003 after a review indicated there were possible new lines of inquiry
- In 2010, 14 men were arrested in connection with PC Blakelock's death and the attempted murder of his colleague PC Richard Coombes
- Nine were told in August 2011 that they would face no further action, and the rest except Jacobs have now been released.
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Blakelock murder suspect to appear in court tomorrow
The Crown Prosecution Service said Nicholas Jacobs, who was today charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.
'Sufficient evidence' to prosecute for Blakelock murder
The CPS said there is "sufficient evidence" to prosecute Nicholas Jacobs over the 1985 murder of PC Keith Blakelock.
They added there was "insufficient evidence" prosecute five other suspects.
Alison Saunders, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London, said:
Man charged with murder of PC Keith Blakelock
Nicholas Jacobs, 44, has been charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, who died in the Broadwater Farm riots in north London in 1985, the Crown Prosecution Service said today.
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Man charged with murder of police officer killed in 1985
A man has been charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, who died in the Broadwater Farm riots in north London in 1985.