Crimestoppers UK and learnt about the Crimestoppers scheme, he saw it as a good opportunity to get the community involved in crime-fighting. Other areas around the UK also learned of Crimestoppers and took it up around this time but there was no national, co-ordinated approach. In 1985, PC Keith Blakelock was murdered during the riots at the Broadwater Farm Estate in London and the police appealed for information, stating that people knew who had been responsible but were frightened of coming forward. Michael Ashcroft (now Lord Ashcroft, KCMG and Chairman of the Trustees of Crimestoppers), a businessman, offered to provide the police
Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On Even today people still ask the question "how could a tiny spark turn into such a gigantic flame"? An online exhibition from the Pogus Caesar / OOM Gallery Archives as part of British Black History Month 2005 Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On is the name of an exhibition of photographs taken by Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar during and in the wake of the Handsworth Riots, 9–11 September 1985. In September 1985 the days were warm and sunny, thousands of dancing revellers, many in brightly coloured costumes were pouring into the