21 years ago a 18 year old black man named Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack London (wiki).
The case became, and still is, a cause célèbre and had spawned a number of enquiries into the London Metropolitan Police, it's attitude to crime involving non-whites, it's incompetence and self-protection and it's failures to properly investigate police misconduct.
The LMP was declared to be "institutionally racist" in one of those enquiries, in 1998.
The case also triggered to elimination of "double jeopardy" in the UK, allowing a person acquitted of a crime to be re-tried, if new evidence was obtained, with the consent of the court.
The case also, eventually, triggered an investigation into long running complaints of police corruption, that at least one of the investigating officers had corrupt ties to the family of one of the murderers.
Last year there were further revelations of police misconduct when an undercover officer admitted that he'd infiltrated one of the groups support the family of Stephen Lawrence and that he'd been pressured by superiors to "smear" the credibility of the family to put an end to their efforts to obtain a proper investigation into Lawrence's death.
Today we have the next phase of revelations (report link) and a public enquiry is to be set up to examine the behaviour of undercover LMP officers.
BBC link
The case became, and still is, a cause célèbre and had spawned a number of enquiries into the London Metropolitan Police, it's attitude to crime involving non-whites, it's incompetence and self-protection and it's failures to properly investigate police misconduct.
The LMP was declared to be "institutionally racist" in one of those enquiries, in 1998.
The case also triggered to elimination of "double jeopardy" in the UK, allowing a person acquitted of a crime to be re-tried, if new evidence was obtained, with the consent of the court.
The case also, eventually, triggered an investigation into long running complaints of police corruption, that at least one of the investigating officers had corrupt ties to the family of one of the murderers.
Last year there were further revelations of police misconduct when an undercover officer admitted that he'd infiltrated one of the groups support the family of Stephen Lawrence and that he'd been pressured by superiors to "smear" the credibility of the family to put an end to their efforts to obtain a proper investigation into Lawrence's death.
Today we have the next phase of revelations (report link) and a public enquiry is to be set up to examine the behaviour of undercover LMP officers.
BBC link
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