Daily Mirror

Cops ‘still racist’ 25yrs after Stephen murder

VIOLENT CRIME CONTINUES TO SURGE

- BY TOM PETTIFOR and NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor

got angry all over again because I realise that was an awful process SCOTLAND Yard continues to be for the family to go through, and institutio­nally racist 25 years it’s still happening now.” after Stephen Lawrence’s murder, Stephen was stabbed to death his mother’s lawyer has said. in Eltham, South East London, on

Imran Khan QC said a new April 22, 1993, aged 18. documentar­y series on the black Mr Khan said he also believes teenager’s death and its bent police officers helped aftermath had left him feeling Stephen’s killers escape justice. betrayed by the police. He said: “My belief is that

Mr Khan said at a screening: corruption played a part.” “I feel now that the Former detective sense of progress Clive Driscoll, who that I think had led the been made with investigat­ion police officers that saw two of understand­ing Stephen’s racism and killers, Gary institutio­nal Dobson and racism goes back David Norris, to simply lip service. finally convicted

“I think it’s now of murder, said the hidden far better than it issue of racism in the was, but it exists and PAIN Baroness Lawrence police will be “an it’s thriving and I ongoing thing for think there’s a lot more that we’ve a very, very long time”. got to do.” Met Police chief Cressida Dick

Mr Khan, who represents said that the Met was a Stephen’s mother, Baroness “completely different” institutio­n Lawrence, believes the three now, and was “infinitely better” in programmes “will reignite the terms of racism, after the case. feeling among the black Stephen, the Murder that community that the police haven’t Changed a Nation is on BBC One changed at all”. He added: “I’ve on Tuesday, April 17.

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KILLED BY RACISTS Stephen was just 18 years

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