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    just off Brixton Hill and surrounded by houses built during Brixton's Victorian expansion. The Surrey House of Correction, later Brixton prison, was established...
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    officer David Copeland, neo-Nazi who bombed a gay pub, Brixton Market and Brick Lane Louis De Zoysa, shot dead an on-duty police sergeant at Croydon police...
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  • Olive Morris (category People from Brixton)
    Anglo-Chinese Understanding. After graduating, Morris returned to Brixton and worked at the Brixton Community Law Centre. She became ill and received a diagnosis...
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    given as cerebral malaria. Rhodes was buried at New Brixton cemetery the following day; on 1 April, de Melker received £100 from Rhodes' life insurance policy...
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  • weekends between 17 and 30 April 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated in Brixton in South London; at Brick Lane, Spitalfields, in the East End; and at the...
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  • He was the one who recruited Brixton Lore for Eteon and when he sent Brixton to try to also recruit Deckard Shaw, Brixton was shot by Shaw and near death...
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  • (Cecil Hayter) The Union Jack (2nd Series) 740 The Amazing Affair of the Brixton Burglary Anon. (John W. Bobin) Plus: In the Hands of the Head Hunters (part...
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  • Raine Allen-Miller (category People from Brixton)
    fueled her love for films. When she was 12 years old, Allen-Miller moved to Brixton, South London, with her father. She considers her father a source of inspiration...
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  • service Terence MacSwiney – Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920 who died in Brixton Prison after a hunger strike lasting 74 days. "1981: Hunger striker elected...
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    by the British Government on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton Prison. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike brought...
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  • member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Upon his escape from Brixton prison during the hunger strike in the winter of 1980, he was declared "Britain's...
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    be seen to the right of the Lambeth Water Works and Female Convict Prison on Brixton Hill at the junction with George Place. It does not appear on Whitbread's...
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    ISBN 978-0-74532-572-9. O'Hearn, D. (2017). "Movement Inside and Outside of Prison: The H-Block Protest". In De Fazio, G.; Bosi, L. (eds.). The Troubles in Northern Ireland...
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  • Sneakbo (category People from Brixton)
    releasing music for over eight years, Sneakbo released his debut album Brixton in March 2018. At a young age Sneakbo listened to the late rapper Tupac...
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  • airport, not him. Several weeks later, Fryer committed suicide in his Brixton Prison cell. Pyle was charged with being an accessory after the fact in murder...
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    Zacarias Moussaoui (category People from Saint-Jean-de-Luz)
    enrolled in 1993 and graduated in 1995. He attended, amongst others, the Brixton Mosque, where he may have met Richard Reid, the future shoe bomber. He...
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  • with attempted murder and other offences. He was kept on remand at Brixton Prison and escorted to and from court under heavy guard. On 24 December, while...
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  • Hermann Görtz (category Nazis who died by suicide in prison custody)
    at Harwich. Emig had stayed behind in Germany. Görtz was detained in Brixton prison. Police accused him of offences against the Official Secrets Act (effectively...
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    enemy by sending letters to his mother and brother. He was locked up in Brixton prison and Holloway internment camp as an enemy alien. He didn't sympathise...
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    Bobby Storey (section Prison)
    hijack a helicopter to help Brian Keenan escape from Brixton Prison. Tuite escaped from the same prison prior to the trial, and the other two IRA volunteers...
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  • Richard David Muir, and the judge was Henry McCardie. Malcolm was held at Brixton Prison during the trial. It is believed to have been the first crime of passion...
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  • 2000 Light Years from Home (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    charted as a single in Germany. Jagger reportedly wrote the lyrics in Brixton prison following his conviction on drug charges in June 1967. The song was...
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    Dave (rapper) (category People from Brixton)
    Split Decision. David Orobosa Omoregie was born on 5 June 1998 in the Brixton area of South London, His father, Frank Omoregie, is a pastor and his mother...
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    staff in UK police forces – other law enforcement agencies, such as HM Prison Service, have also adopted identification numbers. Although now displayed...
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    charged with the murder of Michael O'Dwyer, and remanded in custody at Brixton Prison. Initially asked to explain his motivations, Singh stated: "I did it...
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  • University Gaza protest sees 16 arrested". BBC News. Retrieved 23 May 2024. "Brixton slash attacks: Man jailed for random murder and attacks". BBC News. BBC...
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  • drill music and road rap that originated in the South London district of Brixton from 2012 onwards. While being sonically distinct from Chicago drill music...
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    one on the UK Album Chart. The band sold out three nights at London's Brixton Academy, supported The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, and played the Pyramid...
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  • was kidnapped in South London, England, as she was walking home to the Brixton Hill area from a friend's house near Clapham Common. She was stopped by...
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  • Library Bonaero Park Libary Bramfischerville Library Birchleigh Library Brixton Library Brooklyn Library Bryanston Library Centurion Library Cullinan Library...
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