Blair Peach: retired police face charges

Retired police could be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice over the death of anti-racism activist Blair Peach 30 years ago.

Scotland Yard passed an internal report into the killing to the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday.

Mr Peach, 33, was hit over the head at a demonstration against the National Front in Southall, in 1979.

Members of the Met's Special Patrol Group were suspected of hitting him with a rubberised police radio or a lead-filled cosh.