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 […]