Broadwater Farm riot

The Broadwater Farm riot occurred on the Broadwater council estate in Tottenham, North London, on 6 October 1985.

The events of the day were dominated by two deaths. The first was that of 48-year-old Cynthia Jarrett (June 1937—05 October 1985), a Jamaican woman, born in Clarendon, Jamaica, who had died the previous day due to heart failure during a police search at her home. It was one of the main triggers of the riot, in a context where tensions between local black youth and the Metropolitan Police were already high, due to a combination of local issues and the aftermath of the 1985 Brixton riot which had occurred the previous week, following the shooting of a black woman, Cherry Groce, during another police search. The second death was the murder of Keith Blakelock, the third police officer since 1833 to be killed in a riot in Britain (all three being in the Metropolitan Police).

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