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Paul Sealy-Filmmaker
Paul Sealy - is a London raised writer and producer. He began playing drums for the hip-hop band Red Ninja in 1988 and made a living as a session player. He eventually took the reins of the band in 1992. The band eventually split up on their infamous German tour in 1993.
In 1996 Sealy and Robert André founded Pirate Multimedia, first conceived as a movie and music company, it soon became clear that Pirate would only make movies. Their feature length movies include: The Best Policy (2003) and Sister Sinner (2004). Sealy lives in East London with his girlfriend and son.
Dr Tony Sewell - academic, author and newspaper columnist once dubbed 'Sewer Sewell' for his outspoken column in The Voice newspaper. The academic Dr. Sewell is on the staff of the University of Leeds.
Benji Stanley (d) - teenager shot dead by gangsters in Manchester while he queued at a Moss Side in 1993. Suggestions were made that the 14-year-old had been involved as a 'mule' were not substantiated.
Annie Stewart - former editor of the Voice Newspaper. Famed for
sticking a pair of donkey's ears over a picture of Sir Paul Condon, the
then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, under the headline 'CONDON YOU'RE
AN ASS!' The outburst followed suggestions by the Met Police that the majority
of muggers in the capital were Black and the launch of Operation Eagle
Eye - an attempt by Police to combat street robbery.
She spent over a decade at the paper rising from reporter to
editor-in-chief and was the first editor to be listed in Who's Who
published annually.
She was born in East London of Jamaican parents and has one daughter.
SUS LAW - Under the notorious "sus" law, now abolished, police could stop and search anyone they suspected, whether rightly or wrongly, of being about to commit a crime. The law which was widely abused by police forces led to accusations of racism and further Black mistrust of the police service. Sus is widely believed to have played a huge part in the Brixton riots of 1981as the Metropolitan Police's Operation Swamp seemingly targeted Black youth in the Lambeth area. In the early 90s, following the IRA's Bishopsgate bombing, the City of London Police's 'ring of steel' was likened to a return of 'sus' with a disproportionate amount of Black people again being targeted for stop and search by police. The then MP for Tottenham, the late Bernie Grant condemned the action as an abuse of civil rights. Other incidences likened to 'sus' included the Metropolitan polices 'Operation Eagle Eye' which targeted street criminals. It was felt that Black youth were being unfairly targeted and led to suggestions by then commissioner of Police, Sir Paul Condon, that Black youths were predominantly involved in street crime. The Voice Newspaper branded him an "ass".
George Silcott - devoted civil liberties campaigner and the
younger brother
of Winston Silcott. Now works as a North London park keeper.
Winston Silcott - "Silcott has been tried for murder
three times, he's been convicted twice and acquitted once - either he's
very, very unlucky or he's as guilty as sin," said a policemen when
asked about him.
Silcott was jailed for life in 1987 for the killing of policeman Keith
Blakelock during the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots - the conviction was later
overturned and he was cleared in November 1991. The guilty verdicts of
Engin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite who were charged alongside Silcott were
also quashed.
Silcott had been jailed on the weight of an unsigned, uncorroborated
police statements taken in the absence of a solicitor. Analysis showed
that some pages of the document had been replaced at a later stage. He was
released in October 2003 having served 18 years for the murder of boxer
Tony Smith.
Silcott lives in Tottenham, North London.
