Silcott's conviction is quashed To the tabloid press, Winston Silcott was "The Beast of Broadwater Farm", the man jailed in 1987 for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock on 6 October 1985, during the Broadwater Farm estate riot in Tottenham, north London.
Front National posters are plastered outside the police station on the edge of this estate, and riot police cordon it off many mornings.
"I'm not saying the police should not do their investigation, but I do worry if this will put it all back". Mr Stirling lived on the estate during the riots, and says Broadwater Farm has moved on in leaps and bounds: "It's not discussed," he said.
She thinks nothing has improved on French estates since the riots.
In autumn, the estate is a riot of multicoloured trees, fiery bracken, and shards of golden sunlight.
PC Blakelock was working to protect a group of firefighters who had been called to the estate after the riot started.
The dead man's gang: Tottenham Man Dem Tottenham Man Dem was formed on the Broadwater Farm estate before the 1985 riots, which erupted when Cynthia Jarrett died during a police search of her home.
Karim, 21, grew up in a council flat on the notorious Grigny 2 estate and remembers the riots, when he was 12, as just part of life on an estate.
The film establishes their grim historical context: the men were brought up on the Broadwater Farm estate, where the 1985 riots and murder of PC Keith Blakelock seeded bitterness and rage.
He claims there were no riots on estates he designed.
