First published on Sat 1 May 2021 05.00 EDT
As Line of Duty completes its sixth and possibly final series, just how close to reality was it?
As it happens, the end of the run coincides with the publication of Rot at the Core, an in-depth investigation into the life and times of one of Britainâs most spectacularly corrupt police officers, whose career ended in disgrace before his death in a prison cell.
The authors are a former detective superintendent, Graham Satchwell, who investigated corruption in his own force, and Winston Trew, a victim of the bent officer, whose wrongful conviction from nearly 50 years ago was only recently overturned.
First published on Sun 13 Dec 2020 19.01 EST
Two men who were jailed nearly 50 years ago on the word of a corrupt detective could finally have their names cleared.
The cases of two members of the so-called “Stockwell Six”, who were accused of attempting to rob that officer on the underground, are now being referred to the court of appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).
The case is the latest involving the late Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell of the British Transport Police (BTP), who died in 1982 in prison, where he was serving a sentence for conspiracy to steal mailbags. The CCRC is now seeking to contact the remaining co-defendants in the case so that they, too, can have their cases referred.