Stoke Newington police station became one of the most notorious in the country after a number of major incidents there in the 1980s and 1990s. The death of Colin Roach inside the station in 1983 provoked great anger in the community and many responses. There were also many disputed arrests with people claiming they had been falsely accused, cases which were monitored and logged by the Hackney Community Defence Association. The Metropolitan police then launched an investigation into alleged corruption at the station called Operation Jackpot. The Guardian covered the story in 1992 and was sued for libel by eight officers. This led to a trial which ended in a victory for the Guardian, the first of 95 libel cases brought by the Police Federation against newspapers that they had lost. Chas Loft and Graham Smith of the HCDA and Duncan Campbell, who covered the case for the Guardian, will talk about those times.