Going back to the OP, the SY if anything are tenacious, lets hope it wont take that long to solve this case
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10194318/PC-Keith-Blakelock-murder-new-charge-after-28-years.htmlScotland Yard will bring murder charges over the killing of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in the next few days, it has been confirmed.
Pc Keith Blakelock was attacked during the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 (PA)
By Ben Bryant, and David Barrett7:00AM BST 22 Jul 2013
A man who was under 18 at the time of the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 will be prosecuted over his involvement in one of Britain’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Metropolitan Police disclosed to the Telegraph last year that after reviewing the evidence against the man, two QCs agreed there is a realistic prospect of conviction – the hurdle which investigators must clear in order to win the backing of the Crown Prosecution Service.
This week the police confirmed that five men aged between 40 and 51 who were arrested in 2010 have been re-bailed to an unspecified date in July.
The development follows a new inquiry into PC Blakelock's death. A three-year review, which started in 2000, uncovered leads and resulted in a new investigation in 2003.
The reinvestigation cost taxpayers millions of pounds and spanned 13 years.
More than 6,000 statements were examined and cutting edge DNA techniques were used to scrutinise evidence, the Daily Mail reported.
Police also compiled video of the scene using police and press photographs taken on the night.
Winston Silcott and two other men were jailed for the crime in 1987 but later had their convictions quashed on the grounds they were considered unsafe.
Detectives are understood to have had their confidence buoyed by the conviction in January of Gary Dobson and David Norris for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence.
The officers believe that if such a long standing and legally complex case can be resolved then justice can also finally be secured for Pc Blakelock.
Pc Blakelock, 40, was attacked as he tried to protect firefighters who were tackling a supermarket blaze at the height of the riot on October 6, 1985.
After stumbling, the father of three was surrounded by a mob screaming “Kill the pig”.
He was stabbed dozens of times and the machete-wielding killers then tried to decapitate him. A later trial heard the mob intended to parade the constable’s head on a pole to taunt other officers.
Winston Silcott, Mark Braithwaite and Engin Raghip were convicted in March 1987 of Pc Blakelock’s murder but 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.
Silcott accepted £50,000 compensation from the Home Office but remained in prison for an unrelated murder and was released in 2003. None of the three men originally convicted is the suspect in the new case.
It was revealed on the 25th anniversary of his murder, in October 2010, that 10 men had been arrested in London and Suffolk for questioning over the crime.
All were aged in their 40s or 50s and had lived in the Tottenham area at the time of the riot.
New forensic tests were carried out on Pc Blakelock’s flame-retardant overalls, which for years had been on show to criminologists and trainee police officers at Scotland Yard’s “Black Museum”.
The garment and more than a dozen murder weapons – several machetes and a kitchen knife found embedded up to the hilt in the constable’s neck – were analysed using updated DNA techniques for the first time.
Glen Smyth, former chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, welcomed the decision to put a new suspect on trial.
He told the Daily Mail: "The brutal murder of Keith Blakelock shocked the Met to its core.
"The attack on him was motivated by evil and hatred, and committed by people who have no regard for human life."
Pc Blakelock’s widow Elizabeth said at the time of the October 2010 arrests: “I desperately hope this leads to something. It will bring the closure that we have never been able to get.
“There’s never, ever been a day goes past when I do not think of Keith and this has been hanging over us every day for the past 25 years.”
