Revisited: The story of the Oval 4

Yesterday the convictions of Courtney Harriot, Paul Green and Cleveland Davidson were overturned by the Court of Appeal. They made up half of a group of wrongfully convicted men known as the Stockwell 6. Davidson described the conviction they received in 1972 as a 'total stitch up'. They were accused by the late and now disgraced police officer Derek Ridgewell of attempting to rob him while travelling on the tube from Stockwell station in London. Last year we reported on the Oval 4’s case, a remarkably similar case, with the same corrupt officer at the centre of it. We thought it was timely to repost that story in light of the Court of Appeals decision in the Stockwell 6 case. Winston Trew, a member of the Oval 4, was dogged in his search for the truth about Ridgewell. A campaign which has gone some way to help overturn a number of cases since. So settle in as we revisit the story of the Oval 4.