by kennynah » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:02 am
these racist bastards finally got convicted of a racist instigated cold blooded murder of a 18 year old black boy in South London in 1993..
this case is being followed and reported fervently today over BBC News and extensively covered by Panorama documentary that exposed the incompetencies and equally racist attitude of the Metropolitan Police.
it has taken 18 years of incessant campaigning by the victim's mother, which included getting Nelson Mandela's intervention, to come to this guilty verdict announced just on 3Jan2012.
sentencing will take place at the Old Bailey on4Jan2012.
uk does not have death penalty sentencing. everyone is awaiting to see how the judge will sentence these criminals tomorrow.
i'm afraid this is london for you. racism is very real here. so, the next time some one makes complimentary remarks about your trip to london, just remember this case and many of such cases.
on New Year's eve, there were 3 murders, all involving dark skinned victims. an indian student was shot in the head unprovoked at point blank in manchester. a teenage black girl babysitting her niece and nephew was murdered. a teenage black boy was stabbed to death at oxford street amidst a busy shopping crowd.
almost everyday, you hear from bbc news of some murders and rapes all over uk.
frankly, just like usa, uk has become a decadent society.
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Last updated: January 3, 2012 7:54 pm
Dobson and Norris guilty of Stephen Lawrence murder
By Helen Warrell
It has taken four police investigations, two trials, a judicial inquiry and an inquest, but nearly 19 years after black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death at a London bus stop, two men have been brought to justice.
The six-week trial of Gary Dobson and David Norris drew to a close on Tuesday as jurors delivered the verdict that the pair, fuelled by racial prejudice, had murdered the 18-year-old in Eltham, south London, in April 1993. It was a historic ruling in a case that has hung heavy on the country’s conscience and challenged the integrity of its major institutions: a public inquiry into the initial police investigation accused Scotland Yard of both professional incompetence and institutional racism, while wider concerns were raised about government control of race relations in UK communities.
Both Dobson and Norris were among the original five gang members arrested by Scotland Yard in the immediate aftermath of the murder, alongside the brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt and another man, Luke Knight. However, none of the attempts by the Crown Prosecution Service to bring legal proceedings against the men came to full trial.
The latest case, heard at the Old Bailey, was made possible only after a Court of Appeal ruling last May overturned the 1996 acquittal of Mr Dobson – the result of a private prosecution brought by the Lawrence family – and a law change in 2005 abolished the rule of “double jeopardyâ€, thereby allowing suspected criminals to be tried again for the same offence.
Police undertook a re-evaluation of all the forensic evidence in 2006, eventually finding tiny fragments of blood, hair and fibre that were traced to clothing belonging to Mr Dobson and Mr Norris and used by prosecutors to prove their participation in the violent attack.
The court has now been told that both the accused had previous convictions: Mr Dobson is currently serving five years for drug offences and Mr Norris was previously jailed for a racist attack on a black policeman.
Standing on the steps of the Old Bailey, Doreen Lawrence, Stephen’s mother, reiterated her criticisms of the original Scotland Yard investigation into Stephen’s death in 1993. “Had the police done their job properly, I would have spent the last 18 years grieving for my son rather than fighting to get his killers to court,†she said.
Cressida d**k, acting deputy commissioner for the Metropolitan Police – who ordered Scotland Yard’s cold case review in 2006 – said it was a matter of “huge regret†for the force that it had taken so long to get a conviction.
But she also pointed out that forensic breakthroughs had been enabled by “previously unavailable scientific technology and techniquesâ€, and paid tribute to the Lawrence family whose campaign for justice had brought “major changes within policing, the law and society as a wholeâ€.
Mr Dobson and Mr Norris will be sentenced on Wednesday.
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