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
2013 Biryulyovo riots 2013 Biryulyovo riots On 13 October 2013, riots broke out in Moscow's southern Biryulyovo district after it was announced that Egor Shcherbakov, a 25-year-old man, was killed allegedly by a migrant who "might have come from Central Asia or the Caucasus" on 10 October. The footage of the man being stabbed was circulated in the news agencies. The previous day, some 40 people gathered to demand justice. The police announced a reward of 1 million rubles (~$30,975) for any information about the suspect. The riots turned violent as the protesters, a "mixed crowd of nationalists and locals", attacked properties owned