Three years later Mr Trew took legal advice about the possibility of contesting his conviction but took no further action. Mr Simmons had been arrested by DS Ridgewell in 1975 and convicted of mailbag theft on the basis of Ridgewell's evidence. Businessman Stephen Simmons, 62, was present in court in London last year when the Court of Appeal overturned his theft convictions. In 2013 Mr Simmons, from Dorking, Surrey, called a legal phone-in on LBC Radio to ask for advice and was told to try Googling his arresting officer. Mr Simmons was sent to Borstal at the age of 20 in 1976 after his convictions in relation to the theft of mail from a train at Clapham Goods Yard in London.

Source: Daily Mail October 14, 2019 07:07 UTC