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Convictions of rail workers based on corrupt police officer evidence set to be reviewed
Byadmin August 4, 2023

[ad_1] T he convictions of two British Rail worker who were jailed 46 years ago on the evidence of a corrupt police officer are set to be reviewed as “potential racially-motivated miscarriages of justice”, it has been announced. Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet were both sentenced to nine months in prison in 1977 after they…

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Unions say vote to end rail shareholders £1.2billion ‘Great Train Robbery’
Byadmin November 30, 2019

[ad_1] Rail company shareholders have taken £1.2billion in dividends over the last five years. And that’s the equivalent of a Great Train Robbery every three months. The £2.6million loot stolen by Ronnie Biggs and his gang in 1963, one of the biggest thefts in British history, is worth £53million in today’s money. Shareholders now trouser…

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