Black In Britain - A reference file

Joy Gardner - the Jamaican born mother of one was one of many Black people to die in Police custody in the '90s. Having over-stayed on a six-month visa, immigration and police officers arrived at her Hornsey (north London) home to serve a deportation order. She was physically restrained, bound and gagged - she suffocated. Although a number of the officers involved in the incident were charged with manslaughter and the inquest into her death ruled death by misadventure, the officers in question were later acquitted.

Ricardo Gardner - after the shock qualification of Jamaica's national football team into the 1998 World Cup, Gardiner became one of the first non-British 'Reggae Boy' to sign for a English league club - Bolton Wanderers.
The Kingston born star would eventually realise his dream of playing Premiership football, but not without toughing it it out in Division One first. He'd come a long way from Jamaica's Harbour View but is a proven talent and the only member of the World Cup 98 Reggae Boyz squad playing top flight English football.

Saundra L Glenn - is an entrepreneur business woman. She has managed and run successful projects on both sides of the Atlantic and featured prominently in the book “Made in Britain – Inspirational Role Models from British Black and Minority Ethnic Communities” (Pearson, September 2005). She says: "I believe in the benefit of social sciences and have provided a platform for the project management, presentation and creative services over the last 20 years. Saundra has amongst over things managed diversity careers fairs, raised hundreds and thousands in private sponsorship. Her clients have included, Citigroup, East of England Development Agency, London Development Agency and the Mayor of London. She is also a trained journalist.

Courtney Griffiths - Barrister extraordinaire.

Michael Groce - gunman and villain turned poet. Thought to have been the catalyst behind the Brixton Riot of 1981.