He is believed to have fled to Scotland after the murder of Mrs Eileen Maskall eight days ago in east London

He is believed to have fled to Scotland after the murder of Mrs Eileen Maskall eight days ago in east London. Silcott, 35, has already received pounds 20,000 compensation for wrongful conviction and wanted pounds 200,000 more, alleging that the police fabricated interview evidence against him. The teenager, who lives with his mother in Hampstead, north London, was arrested last month while visiting his father and other relatives in Lagos Jason Bennetto. Winston Silcott, whose conviction for murdering PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riot in London in 1985 was quashed, yesterday lost his legal battle to sue the two police officers who investigated the case.

The Nigerian High Commissioner in London was summoned to the Foreign Office yesterday to be told of the Government's "deep concerns" over the affair. John-Paul visited the British High Commission yesterday with his mother, who flew to Nigeria on Sunday, and his uncle. we hope there will be new lines of inquiry from the information, and we will solve this sooner rather than later." Rebecca FowlerSaturday Story: Page 16. A British schoolboy is being forced to remain in Nigeria in defiance of official protests from the Foreign Office. The Nigerian military government freed John-Paul Mokulou, 13, on Thursday after holding him for a month, but said yesterday that he could not leave and must report with his passport to the security service twice a week. His relatives believe he is being held in an attempt by the authorities to capture his father, who is in hiding. It's co-chair Bruce Kent, former head of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a former Labour candidate, published a list of 79 target Tory seats where Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters would be urged to vote for the candidate of whichever party was best-placed to win."Of course many voters are intensely loyal to a party, but where that party has no realistic hope of winning the seat, the only way to make their vote count is to vote tactically," Mr Kent.. A war veteran was punched and kicked in a road rage attack after two men mistook his courtesy wave for a two-fingered salute.

Ronald Francis, 73, was driving home from an ex-servicemen's club in Portsmouth when they pulled him out of the car by his hair and attacked him. Mr Francis, from Chichester, said: "I have seen my fair share of fighting, but to go to a branch meeting and meet old friends, and finish up as I did in hospital, is beyond my comprehension." Local businessmen have offered a reward of pounds 500 for information leading to the arrest of the men. Police have been inundated with calls after a television appeal in the hunt for the killer of Stephen Cameron, 21, who was stabbed in front of his girlfriend by the driver of a Land-Rover Discovery near Swanley, Kent, last weekend.A spokeswoman said: "People are naming names, some of which have been mentioned before. Mr Ashdown said: "The economy is going to look much better as a promise in October than it will as a reality in the spring. All the ingredients of another boom and bust cycle are in place." Telling party officials to bring forward general election planning, he said: "Westminster is full of talk of a 'beef election'. A senior Conservative said to me yesterday, 'At last, we've got something to say. we can go to the people in the autumn on a Who Runs Britain - Westminster or Brussels? ticket'."Tory party sources have already made clear that the Prime Minister does not think he can run an election campaign on the beef issue, and would prefer to hold on until 1 May next year.One of the drier sources said: "If we went to the country asking, 'Who Runs Britain?' I think the answer we would get would be 'Tony Blair'."However, election fever was also stoked yesterday by the launch of the national campaign to encourage tactical voting, called Grot - Get Rid Of Them.