One of Stephen Lawrence’s killers has apologised to the teenager’s family for his role in the racist stabbing but refused to identify the other gang members involved. At a parole hearing, David Norris, 49, admitted publicly for the first time that he punched Lawrence, 18, who was waiting for a bus in Eltham, southeast London, […]
A homophobic killer who murdered a man for allegedly making a pass at him has now been jailed again – for throttling his cellmate. Vitalie Tanga, 41, was given a life sentence last year for the ‘senseless’ killing of Alfred Mattox, who was gay, after beating him to death in his own home in 2021. […]
The Met police’s decision to shut down the hunt for the racist killers of Stephen Lawrence is to be reviewed, with police admitting “serious mistakes” are still being made in the case. Read More >> Related: Racism and Homophobia in the Met Met shut down the hunt for the racist killers of Stephen Lawrence Read: […]
Scotland Yard is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic and the public is being let down by a force that no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service, a damning report concludes. In an excoriating review, which echoes the 1999 Macpherson report into the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, Baroness Casey says Britain’s biggest […]