2 found guilty of 1993 murder of Jamaican in UK

Posted by Tony on January 03, 2012
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A jury has found two white men guilty of murdering a black teenager in a brutal racist stabbing that shocked Britain almost two decades ago.

Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were convicted today of killing Stephen Lawrence as he waited for a bus in 1993. The pair will be sentenced Wednesday.

The case – which has seen multiple court cases but no convictions until now – led to strong criticism of London’s Metropolitan Police and resulted in an investigation that found that the force was ‘institutionally racist’. Continue

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