The 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 were convicted of stealing from the Bricklayers Arms’ Goods Depot in Southwark, south London, and they died with their convictions still in place.
