Records of Winston Silcott on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Winston Silcott in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Winston Silcott and the Silcott Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Silcott Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Silcott family tree.

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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Winston Silcott. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Winston Silcott

Winston Silcott

Winston Silcott (born 1959), a British citizen of Caribbean (Montserrat) parents, was wrongfully convicted in March 1987, as one of the "Tottenham Three", for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock on the night of 6 October 1985 during the Broadwater Farm riot in north London – despite not having been near the scene. The convictions of all three individuals were quashed on 25 November 1991 after scientific tests suggested the men's confessions had been fabricated.

Silcott received compensation of £17,000 for his wrongful conviction. Two of the investigating police officers were prosecuted for fabricating evidence but were acquitted in 1994. Silcott received a further £50,000 in compensation from the Metropolitan Police in an out-of-court settlement which ended a civil action against the force for malicious prosecution.

Silcott was convicted in 1979 and sent to prison for six months for his part in a nightclub brawl. His other convictions include murder, burglary, malicious wounding and possession of an offensive weapon. In 1979 he was tried for and acquitted of murder in the first of his three murder trials.

In 1989, the London School of Economics Students' Union elected Silcott as Honorary President, as a protest against miscarriages of justice.

Silcott served 18 years imprisonment for the murder of boxer and nightclub bouncer Tony Smith, for which he was on bail when Blakelock was killed. Silcott claimed that he killed Smith in self-defence after an altercation in which he feared for his life and felt he had no choice but to attack, but was disbelieved by the jury. He was released from Blantyre House Prison in October 2003. Silcott had also served a six-month prison sentence for assault in a nightclub prior to his conviction for the murder of Smith.

In 2005, the police recruited Silcott to run a youth centre on the Broadwater Farm Estate, in a bid to reduce youth crime in the area.

In March 2007, he was found guilty of theft from shops for a second time since his release from prison. After his initial arrest he was held in police cells for two days for failing to reveal his real address.

Source: Winston Silcott, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Silcott

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