Doreen Lawrence

UK NEWS: DOREEN LAWRENCE TO JOIN HOUSE OF LORDS AS LABOUR PEER

Via BBC News The mother of the murdered London teenager Stephen Lawrence is to be made a Labour peer. Doreen Lawrence has led a long campaign to find out what happened to her son, who was killed in a racially aggravated attack in 1993. Two men were eventually convicted of his murder in 2011. A Labour source said leader Ed Miliband felt Mrs Lawrence was a “hero of modern Britain” and “voices like hers” should be heard in Parliament. Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence []

UK NEWS: DOREEN LAWRENCE TO JOIN OLYMPIC FLAME RELAY

The Press Association reports that Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered black London teenager Stephen Lawrence, will be one of the torchbearers carrying the Olympic Flame on its last days before the start of the 2012 Games. Mrs Lawrence (59) will carry the torch on July 23 as the torch relay winds its way through London ahead of the opening ceremony on July 27. She will carry the flame into the forecourt of the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, south east London, []

VIDEO: DOREEN LAWRENCE SPEAKS OUTSIDE THE OLD BAILEY AFTER “GUILTY” VERDICT

Gary Dobson and David Norris have been found guilty of the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993. Stephen, 18, was killed in a racist attack by a gang of white youths in Eltham, South East London, 18 years ago. The trial into the black A-level student’s murder began at the Old Bailey on November 14 last year. There had been total silence in court as the foreman of the jury said “guilty” when asked if the four women and eight men []

UK NEWS: SIR IAN BLAIR SAYS STEPHEN LAWRENCE POLICE WERE NOT RACIST

Stephen Lawrence and Sir Ian Blair 16 years has passed since Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered and they still continue to deny and make excuses. It’s good to see that some things will NEVER change. Via The Telegraph Sir Ian Blair, the former Scotland Yard chief, has claimed that police who investigated the murder of Stephen Lawrence were not “necessarily racist”. In comments likely to stoke tensions more than a decade after the Macpherson report ruled that the Metropolitan police was “institutionally racist”, []