00:00I am Errol Campbell's first son. I looked like him. Before this, he was a great family man and looked after us as children, and he was dapper. He was a good man.
00:12I'll just say something separate as well, on top of what Errol said. Fifty years ago, it was no secret that Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell was racist and corrupt.
00:35There was a Calypso song about him in South London. There was a BBC documentary made about him nationwide. Millions of people saw that documentary about him fitting up 16 young black men.
00:54What did the British Transport Police do? They took Derek Ridgewell into the headquarters. They harboured him, and then they put him back out to commit the misery that you've heard today, the misery that was inflicted on the British rail workers at the Britlayers' arms depot.
01:14So the British Transport Police still have questions to answer. We do not know who made those decisions still today. They have not been held to account.
01:26The people who took him into the headquarters and who pushed him back out on duty have never been named, have never been held to account.
01:34And the media who are here today need to be asking those questions. In 1980, when Ridgewell was convicted, nothing happened to his cases.
01:49Errol Campbell was sentenced to a total of 18 months imprisonment in 1997 after being found guilty for theft and conspiracy to steal from a goods depot where he worked.
02:04The case against him was led by the discredited British transport police officer DS Derek Ridgewell, but along with colleagues DS Douglas Ellis and DC Alan Keeling later pleaded guilty to stealing from the same goods depot.
02:23Mr Campbell unsuccessfully appealed his conviction in 1978 and died in 2004.
