The Mangrove Nine

It was a summer Sunday afternoon and most locals were home. Curtains twitched and front doors opened. Some residents ventured bravely outside to witness the scene.

Their quiet backstreet in west London had become a battleground.

At a noisy but otherwise peaceful march to protest at “police harassment” of black people, fighting between protesters and police had broken out.

Nine people would end up at the Old Bailey in a high-profile, but now much-forgotten, trial that secured an important spot in the timeline of black British people.