Not seen reported in the national or local news media. But then there is virtually no reporting of Sydenham these days in the Newsshopper or South London Press.
Two Sydenham crime bosses convicted of supplying false passports to A-list murderers, drug traffickers & dealers including Stephen Lawrence suspect Jamie Acourt.
Active for 20 years obtaining expired passports from vulnerable people and getting them re-issued with the photos of criminals seeking evade capture. They will be sentenced next week. More: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/crime-bosses
Interesting point you raise Stuart.
I was carrying out some family history investigations and came across an 1884 report of my grandfather being assaulted in the streets of Rotherham and the sentence and name and address of the assailant. There were many other similar reports all identifying where the convicted lived. Even in the 1960s I remember the South London Press and Streatham News doing the same. It was a way the public could express their disapproval by ignoring or avoiding troublemakers. It didn't do much for the convicted's job prospects either.
It's strange that in these times of information availability that this practice of identifying anti-social behaviour has all but vanished or is at least difficult to come across.
