Prince Harry to attend Lawrence service
PRINCE HARRY and his fiancée Meghan Markle will attend a memorial service for Stephen Lawrence and deliver a personal message of support to his family from the Prince of Wales.
Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the death of the teenager, who was murdered while waiting for a bus in southeast London.
The Prince and Ms Markle will meet Stephen’s mother, Baroness Lawrence, and his brother Stuart at St Martin-inthe-fields on Monday at a service to celebrate Stephen’s “life and legacy”, including the charitable trust set up in his name.
The Prince of Wales delivered the annual Stephen Lawrence Memorial Lecture in 2000, in recognition of Stephen’s ambition to be an architect.
Meanwhile, a police officer who spied on the Lawrence family has been revealed as David Hagan. Although it is not his real name, his undercover identity was officially published by the judge-led inquiry into covert policing, after he lost a legal argument to keep it secret.
Hagan, who was accused of being a “spy in the Lawrence family camp”, was active between 1996 and 2001, reporting back to Scotland Yard.
An official review into his activities revealed he had gathered personal details about Stephen’s parents, Doreen and Neville Lawrence.
Hagan is also accused of spying on Duwayne Brooks, the friend who was with Stephen at the time of his murder.
Mr Brooks said: “It has always been my view that I was spied on but what I need to know is what parts of my life he was snooping on. We need to see the intelligence reports that he was feeding back to the Met.”
Neither Doreen nor Neville Lawrence commented.
It is understood Hagan controversially met with then acting detective inspector Richard Walton, who was working on Scotland Yard’s final submissions to the public inquiry, and passed on information, including that Stephen’s parents had separated. In 2014, a damning report on undercover policing by Mark Ellison QC alleged that Mr Walton “obtained information pertaining to the Lawrence family and their supporters, potentially undermining the inquiry and public confidence”.