Death of Keith Blakelock nearby British Legion hall joined in by closed-circuit television. A public-address system was installed to allow 500 people standing outside the church to hear the service. A memorial for Blakelock, commissioned by the Police Memorial Trust, stands by the roundabout at Muswell Hill, north London, where he was a homebeat officer. A plaque on the estate's Broadwater Farm Garden, opened in July 1988, is "dedicated to those who died and suffered on 5th and 6th October 1985"; the deaths on 5 and 6 October were Cynthia Jarrett and Keith Blakelock. PC Dick Coombes, badly injured during the attack, went back
Death of Keith Blakelock killed when a breeze block was dropped on his head while he photographed the looting. Rumours spread throughout London at the end of September 1985 that more rioting was imminent, including in Bermondsey and the Wood Green shopping centre near Broadwater Farm. On 1 October there were disturbances in Toxteth, Liverpool. The police searched all vehicles entering Broadwater Farm that day and the following day found a petrol bomb on the estate. On Saturday, 5 October 1985, a week after the Brixton riot, police arrested Floyd Jarrett, a 24-year-old black man from Tottenham, on suspicion of being in a stolen