Trust in the British police force continues to plummet after it was revealed that officers were basing so called ‘Trident’ investigations on evidence discredited in a recent trial at the Old Bailey.
Darren Mathurin, 28 was named by the police after the Crown Prosecution Service used him as their star witness in a failed murder case against Romain Whyte, 26. Mathurin, a convicted drug dealer and gun man who was facing a life sentence agreed to work with the police in exchange for a 75% reduction to his prison sentence. As part of the deal he is also likely to be given a new life abroad on his release at the tax payer’s expense.
Following the partial collapse of two trials based on Mathurin’s unreliability and poor credibility, the police have dropped him from their ‘assisting offenders’ informant programme. Many are outraged that police incompetence with a shoddy investigation has directly resulted in yet more drug and gun men running amok within the African community.
This is not the first time this has happened. Long before the creation of SCD8 (Operation Trident) the Metropolitan Police force were more covert about the status of paid gangsters on the books of Scotland Yard’s criminal intelligence division code name SO11.
So called ‘yardie’ gangsters Eton Green and Delroy “Epsy” Denton were two such agents on the police ‘assisting offenders’ informant payroll despite Denton being previously convicted in Jamaica for firearms/aggravated burglary offences. Denton who had been described as a “premier-league danger to the public” and a “sex-fuelled psychopath” had fled Jamaica for the murder of seven women. The British government recruit him straight after allowing him to remain in the UK and he ran amok within the African community with state backing.
The close police connection Green and Denton had meant that drugs and firearms charges were dropped and both were able to sell crack cocaine enforcing their trade with guns without fear of arrest or prosecution. Protected by the police, Green and Denton used their impunity from the law to embark on a serious organised crime spree where they collectively terrorised the African community in London and Nottingham robbing hundreds of people at gunpoint.
Denton in particular committed several violent crimes including the sexual assault of a 15-year-old schoolgirl whilst in the service of SO11. Less than a year after being recruited as an informant he raped and then murdered 24-year-old trainee beautician Marcia Lawes by stabbing her 18 times after breaking into her Brixton residence.
Many believe that the similarities with Mathurin are terrifying. In 2005, Jahmall Moore was killed by 16 bullets from three different guns. Mathurin was raised on the notorious Stonebridge estate in London. He joined the police programme after being caught for his involvement in a double murder during 2002 at a night club and a murder committed in 2005. He then cut a deal after admitting further firearm and drug offenses. The Guardian newspaper reports; ‘he was recruited [by the police force] in an arrangement approved by the director of public prosecutions and interviewed [admitting]… all his [previous] offences in a process known as cleansing.’
During December 2008 a judge reduced his 16-year life tariff by 75% and as part of the Serious and Organised Crime Act, he and his family were told that they would be placed under police protection as the article continues; ‘If Mathurin ever shows his face he is unlikely to remain alive for long’.
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Darren Mathurin, 28 was named by the police after the Crown Prosecution Service used him as their star witness in a failed murder case against Romain Whyte, 26. Mathurin, a convicted drug dealer and gun man who was facing a life sentence agreed to work with the police in exchange for a 75% reduction to his prison sentence. As part of the deal he is also likely to be given a new life abroad on his release at the tax payer’s expense.
Following the partial collapse of two trials based on Mathurin’s unreliability and poor credibility, the police have dropped him from their ‘assisting offenders’ informant programme. Many are outraged that police incompetence with a shoddy investigation has directly resulted in yet more drug and gun men running amok within the African community.
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‘Assisting offenders’ informant history
This is not the first time this has happened. Long before the creation of SCD8 (Operation Trident) the Metropolitan Police force were more covert about the status of paid gangsters on the books of Scotland Yard’s criminal intelligence division code name SO11.So called ‘yardie’ gangsters Eton Green and Delroy “Epsy” Denton were two such agents on the police ‘assisting offenders’ informant payroll despite Denton being previously convicted in Jamaica for firearms/aggravated burglary offences. Denton who had been described as a “premier-league danger to the public” and a “sex-fuelled psychopath” had fled Jamaica for the murder of seven women. The British government recruit him straight after allowing him to remain in the UK and he ran amok within the African community with state backing.
The close police connection Green and Denton had meant that drugs and firearms charges were dropped and both were able to sell crack cocaine enforcing their trade with guns without fear of arrest or prosecution. Protected by the police, Green and Denton used their impunity from the law to embark on a serious organised crime spree where they collectively terrorised the African community in London and Nottingham robbing hundreds of people at gunpoint.
Denton in particular committed several violent crimes including the sexual assault of a 15-year-old schoolgirl whilst in the service of SO11. Less than a year after being recruited as an informant he raped and then murdered 24-year-old trainee beautician Marcia Lawes by stabbing her 18 times after breaking into her Brixton residence.
Many believe that the similarities with Mathurin are terrifying. In 2005, Jahmall Moore was killed by 16 bullets from three different guns. Mathurin was raised on the notorious Stonebridge estate in London. He joined the police programme after being caught for his involvement in a double murder during 2002 at a night club and a murder committed in 2005. He then cut a deal after admitting further firearm and drug offenses. The Guardian newspaper reports; ‘he was recruited [by the police force] in an arrangement approved by the director of public prosecutions and interviewed [admitting]… all his [previous] offences in a process known as cleansing.’
During December 2008 a judge reduced his 16-year life tariff by 75% and as part of the Serious and Organised Crime Act, he and his family were told that they would be placed under police protection as the article continues; ‘If Mathurin ever shows his face he is unlikely to remain alive for long’.
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