ly convicted but Winston remained in prison.
In 1999 Winston received a further €50,000 compensation for the malicious prosecution by the Metropolitan police. Like many young, black men Winston was no stranger to police harassment from an early age. The riots on Broadwater Farm took place with the backdrop of a huge police operation involving large-scale harassment of black people on the estate.
Recently we have seen a return to this type of oppressive policing, In London's Hackney police raids on the Pembury estate have been commonplace over the last few months. Black people are seven times more likely to be stopped by the police and now the SUS (stop and search) laws are being resurrected.
Winston, now 43, can never get back the 17 years the system has stolen from him, but we can all fight to ensure others don't face the same fate. If all goes well, Winston will be released very soon. Resistance supporters wish him all the very best. Julia Brandreth housing. Council. Tenants on one of London's oldest council estates are fighting to stop their homes being demolished and replaced by high-priced 'gentrified'
The proposed transfer of Tabard Gardens, Bermondsey, to Peabody Trust Housing Association, is causing huge problems for Southwark
residents.
The situation is turning out to be as controversial as that on the Aylesbury estate, where 73 percent of tenants voted against transfer last year. The location of Tabard Gardens, very close to London Bridge and within walking distance of the City of the London, make the estate a prime site for property developers.
Peabody intend to build new properties there selling at E242, 000 each - way beyond the reach of current
The estate has been run by the Tenants' Management Co-operative (TMC) who proposed the transfer to Peabody Trust.
It emerged recently that Peabody and Wimpey Homes have been on
board of the Tenants Management Co-operative (TMC) for the past seven years.
At the TMC's recent annual general meeting, the management committee was thrown out when 150 residents tumed up to protest.
A council manager has since been drafted in as an emergency measure.
At a hugely successful public meeting held on the estate on 26 September, more than 60 tenants voiced their opposition to transfer and sent a clear message to Southwark's Liberal Democrat and Labour councilors: no more privatisation, defend council housing!
The tenants are determined that their Vote No' campaign can be won when the ballot comes in November.
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