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were overpoliced as potential suspects and
underprotected as potential victims. Sometimes I am
as surprised as anyone that I became a police officer.
It just goes to show, doesn’t it?”
He may have questioned his early enthusiasm when
he was being pursued by the Met who carried out
their task with the vigour of the possessed. This was
to prove an expensive move. It is the only time in
our meeting when Leroy Logan visibly changes. His
shoulders snap back in an act of sheer defiance –
“They interviewed me for three and a half hours.
That was longer than the time they spent with one
of the suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder
inquiry. I remember that two days before my mother
passed, she was asking me about the case. I know it
was playing on her mind.” Less than a year later,
and with the case still not resolved, Logan was
burying his father in the family plot in Jamaica.
“Two years ago who thought I would be in this
position? Certain people had an agenda to see me
“They say mud sticks and there might still be people out there who think I was
involved in sort of criminality but I left that situation with my integrity
demonstrably intact.”
perhaps recalling the period that strained his marriage
and called into question his integrity in the eyes of
many who had just heard the bare bones of the
story. Logan’s nostrils flare and he pulls no punches
in giving his assessment of the ‘campaign’ against
him. “It was a systematic attempt to
discredit me. A lot of the allegations
against Ali [Dizaei] did not stack up
to a hill of beans. There was no
evidence that could have been
taken to a court of law. It all
became very personal. I
refused to just fall in line
and become a target.”
The Met spared no evide