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Murder of Stephen Lawrence

Index Murder of Stephen Lawrence

Stephen Lawrence (13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993) was a black British teenager from Plumstead, south east London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham on the evening of 22 April 1993. [1]

148 relations: Architecture for Everyone, At Her Majesty's pleasure, Attorney General for England and Wales, Axillary artery, Bail, Baron, BBC, BBC Cymru Wales, BBC News, Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe, Black British, Blackheath Bluecoat Church of England School, British Library, Brixton, Brook General Hospital, Bus, Business Insider, Chief constable, Civil Service (United Kingdom), Civitas (think tank), Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, Clavicle, Cold case, Colman Treacy, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Common law, Commonwealth realm, Contempt of court, Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Creative industries, Criminal justice, Criminal Justice Act 2003, Crown Prosecution Service, Daily Mail, David Adjaye, David Cameron, Deborah Crombie, Defamation, Denzel Washington, Deptford, Director of Public Prosecutions, Doreen Lawrence, Double jeopardy, Duwayne Brooks, Editor-in-chief, Eltham, First aid, For Queen and Country, Forensic science, Genetic testing, ..., Greenwich, Greenwich Community College, Greenwich District Hospital, Grove Park, Lewisham, Guildford School of Acting, Hate crime, Home Secretary, Illegal drug trade, Independent Police Complaints Commission, Institutional racism, ITV News, Jack Straw, Jamaica, Juries in England and Wales, Keir Starmer, Kidnapping, Kiln Theatre, Labour Party (UK), Law commission, Legal aid, Lewisham, Life imprisonment, List of sub-regions used in the London Plan, London, London Evening Standard, Lord Chancellor, Manslaughter, Mark Ellison, Metropolitan police, Metropolitan Police Service, Michael Gove, Michael Mansfield, Minor (law), Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category), Murder Investigation Team, Murder of Anthony Walker, Murder of Daniel Morgan, Murder of Kelso Cochrane, Murder of Kriss Donald, Murder of Ross Parker, National Crime Agency, National Health Service (England), New trial, Nicolas Kent, Nigger, Norman Dennis, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Paul Dacre, Paul Foot Award, Peerage, Plumstead, Police Complaints Authority (United Kingdom), Police lineup, Press Association, Pride of Britain Awards, Private Eye, Private investigator, Private prosecution, Pro bono, Protest, Public inquiry, Publication ban, Queen's Counsel, Race and crime in the United Kingdom, Reasonable suspicion, Repeal, RMJM, Robbery, Robin Auld, Royal Institute of British Architects, Scarman Report, Scotland Yard, Secretary of State for Education, Social justice, Socialist Review, South Circular Road, London, Special education in England, Stab wound, Stephen Wright (journalist), Territorial designation, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Lawyer, The Life Scientific, The Times, TheGuardian.com, Theresa May, Toxteth, Undercover operation, Video game, Well Hall, Whistleblower, White British, William Macpherson (judge), Zebra crossing, 1981 England riots, 1993 Welling riots. Expand index (98 more) »

Architecture for Everyone

Architecture for Everyone is a UK-wide initiative designed to enable young people aged 16–25 to use their talents for design and enthusiasm for their community in a range of creative ways related to architecture and urban design.

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At Her Majesty's pleasure

At Her Majesty's pleasure (sometimes abbreviated to Queen's pleasure or, when appropriate, at His Majesty's pleasure or King's pleasure) is a legal term of art referring to the indeterminate or undetermined length of service of certain appointed officials or the indeterminate sentences of some prisoners.

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Attorney General for England and Wales

Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known simply as the Attorney General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown.

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Axillary artery

In human anatomy, the axillary artery is a large blood vessel that conveys oxygenated blood to the lateral aspect of the thorax, the axilla (armpit) and the upper limb.

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Bail

Bail is a set of restrictions that are imposed on a suspect while awaiting trial, to ensure they comply with the judicial process.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Cymru Wales

BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the BBC, and the national broadcaster for Wales.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe

Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe, (born 25 October 1957) is a former English police officer and was the head of London's Metropolitan Police as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2011 until 2017.

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Black British

Black British are British citizens of Black origins or heritage, including those of African-Caribbean (sometimes called "Afro-Caribbean") background, and may include people with mixed ancestry.

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Blackheath Bluecoat Church of England School

Blackheath Bluecoat Church of England School was a secondary school and sixth form located in the Blackheath Standard area of Blackheath, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Brixton

Brixton is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Brook General Hospital

The Brook General Hospital (originally, 1896–1948, the Brook Fever Hospital) was the westernmost of three hospitals simultaneously situated on Shooter's Hill in southeast London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich (the others were the Royal Herbert Hospital and the Memorial Hospital, Woolwich).

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Business Insider

Business Insider is an American financial and business news website that also operates international editions in the UK, Australia, China, Germany, France, South Africa, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Spanish and Singapore.

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Chief constable

Chief Constable is the rank used by the chief police officer of every territorial police force in the United Kingdom except for the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police, as well as the chief officers of the three 'special' national police forces, the British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police, and Civil Nuclear Constabulary.

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Civil Service (United Kingdom)

Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as Her Majesty's Civil Service or the Home Civil Service, is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports Her Majesty's Government, which is composed of a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as two of the three devolved administrations: the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government, but not the Northern Ireland Executive.

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Civitas (think tank)

Civitas: The Institute for the Study of Civil Society is an independent think tank, not affiliated to a political party, aimed at developing public understanding of the framework of a free and democratic society.

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Clarendon Parish, Jamaica

Clarendon (capital May Pen) is a parish in Jamaica.

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Clavicle

The clavicle or collarbone is a long bone that serves as a strut between the shoulder blade and the sternum or breastbone.

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Cold case

A cold case is a crime or an accident that has not yet been fully solved and is not the subject of a recent criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, new or retained material evidence, as well as fresh activities of the suspect.

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Colman Treacy

Sir Colman Maurice Treacy, PC (born 28 July 1949) is a Lord Justice of Appeal.

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Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the head of London's Metropolitan Police Service.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.

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Commonwealth realm

A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state that is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and shares the same person, currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state and reigning constitutional monarch, but retains a Crown legally distinct from the other realms.

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Contempt of court

Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the offense of being disobedient to or discourteous toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice and dignity of the court.

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

The Court of Appeal (COA, formally "Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in England") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Creative industries

The creative industries refers to a range of economic activities which are concerned with the generation or exploitation of knowledge and information.

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Criminal justice

Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have committed crimes.

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Criminal Justice Act 2003

The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c.44) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Crown Prosecution Service

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public prosecuting agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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David Adjaye

Sir David Frank Adjaye (born September 1966) is a Ghanaian British architect.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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Deborah Crombie

Deborah Crombie (née Darden) is an American author of the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom.

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Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer.

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Deptford

Deptford is a district of south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Director of Public Prosecutions

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world.

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Doreen Lawrence

Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE (née Graham; born 24 October 1952) is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993.

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Double jeopardy

Double jeopardy is a procedural defence that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges and on the same facts, following a valid acquittal or conviction.

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Duwayne Brooks

Duwayne Lloyd Anthony Brooks (born 27 September 1974) is a former councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Editor-in-chief

An editor-in-chief, also known as lead editor, chief editor, managing or executive editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.

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Eltham

Eltham is a district of south east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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First aid

First aid is the assistance given to any person suffering a sudden illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery.

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For Queen and Country

For Queen and Country is a 1988 British-American crime drama film co-written and directed by Martin Stellman and starring Denzel Washington.

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Forensic science

Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.

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Genetic testing

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, allows the determination of bloodlines and the genetic diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherited diseases.

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Greenwich

Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.

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Greenwich Community College

Greenwich Community College (GCC) was a college of further education in Plumstead in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, southeast London.

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Greenwich District Hospital

Greenwich District Hospital was an acute district general hospital situated in the Maze Hill district of Greenwich, London.

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Grove Park, Lewisham

Grove Park is a district and electoral ward in south east London, England within the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Guildford School of Acting

Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is a drama school in Guildford, Surrey, England.

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Hate crime

A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime) is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership (or perceived membership) in a certain social group or race.

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Home Secretary

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.

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Independent Police Complaints Commission

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was a non-departmental public body in England and Wales responsible for overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales.

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Institutional racism

Institutional racism (also known as institutionalized racism) is a form of racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions.

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ITV News

ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV.

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Jack Straw

John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is an English politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1979 to 2015.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Juries in England and Wales

In the legal jurisdiction of England and Wales, there is a long tradition of jury trial that has evolved over centuries.

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Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer (born 2 September 1962) is a barrister, a Labour Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras and Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.

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Kiln Theatre

Kiln Theatre (formerly the Tricycle Theatre) is on Kilburn High Road in Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent, England.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Law commission

A law commission, law reform commission, or law revision commission is an independent body set up by a government to conduct law reform; that is, to consider the state of laws in a jurisdiction and make recommendations or proposals for legal changes or restructuring.

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Legal aid

Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people otherwise unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system.

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Lewisham

Lewisham is an area of south London, England, south-east of Charing Cross.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment (also known as imprisonment for life, life in prison, a life sentence, a life term, lifelong incarceration, life incarceration or simply life) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled.

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List of sub-regions used in the London Plan

Greater London is divided into five sub-regions for the purposes of the London Plan.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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Lord Chancellor

The Lord Chancellor, formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest ranking among those Great Officers of State which are appointed regularly in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking even the Prime Minister.

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Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.

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Mark Ellison

Mark Ellison QC is a British barrister and present head of QEB Holllis Whiteman chambers.

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Metropolitan police

Metropolitan police are municipal police of major metropolitan areas.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Michael Gove

Michael Andrew Gove (born 26 August 1967) is a British Conservative politician, who was Secretary of State for Education from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of State for Justice from 2015 to 2016.

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Michael Mansfield

Michael Mansfield (born 12 October 1941) is an English barrister.

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Minor (law)

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood.

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Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)

Mixed is an ethnicity category that has been used by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics since the 1991 Census.

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Murder Investigation Team

Murder/Major Investigation Teams (MIT) are the specialised homicide squads of the Metropolitan Police in London, England.

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Murder of Anthony Walker

Anthony Walker (21 February 1987 – 30 July 2005) was a Black British student of Jamaican descent who was murdered with an ice axe by Michael Barton (brother of footballer Joey Barton) and Barton's cousin Paul Taylor, in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack on the night of 29–30 July 2005 in Huyton, Merseyside.

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Murder of Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan was a private investigator who was murdered in Sydenham, south east London, in March 1987.

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Murder of Kelso Cochrane

Kelso Cochrane (26 September 1926 – 17 May 1959) was an Antiguan immigrant to Britain whose unsolved murder sparked racial tensions in London.

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Murder of Kriss Donald

Kriss Donald (2 July 1988 – 15 March 2004) was a 15-year-old Scottish white male who was kidnapped and murdered in Glasgow in 2004 by a gang of men of Pakistani origin, some of whom fled to Pakistan after the crime.

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Murder of Ross Parker

Ross Andrew Parker (17 August 1984 – 21 September 2001), from Peterborough, England, was a 17-year-old White English male murdered in an unprovoked racially motivated crime.

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National Crime Agency

The National Crime Agency (NCA) is a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom.

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National Health Service (England)

The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded national healthcare system for England and one of the four National Health Services for each constituent country of the United Kingdom.

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New trial

A new trial or retrial is a recurrence of a court case.

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Nicolas Kent

Nicolas Kent (born 26 January 1945) is a British theatre director.

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Nigger

In the English language, the word nigger is a racial slur typically directed at black people.

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Norman Dennis

Norman Dennis (16 August 1929 – 13 November 2010) was a British sociologist.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Paul Dacre

Paul Michael Dacre (born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and editor of the British newspaper the Daily Mail.

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Paul Foot Award

The Paul Foot Award is an award given for investigative or campaigning journalism, set up by The Guardian and Private Eye in memory of the journalist Paul Foot, who died in 2004.

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Peerage

A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various countries, comprising various noble ranks.

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Plumstead

Plumstead is a district of south east London located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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Police Complaints Authority (United Kingdom)

The Police Complaints Authority (PCA), was an independent body in the United Kingdom with the power to investigate public complaints against the Police in England and Wales as well as related matters of public concern.

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Police lineup

A police lineup (in American English) or identity parade (in British English) is a process by which a crime victim or witness's putative identification of a suspect is confirmed to a level that can count as evidence at trial.

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Press Association

The Press Association (PA) is a multimedia news agency operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Pride of Britain Awards

The Pride of Britain Awards is an annual award ceremony which takes place in the United Kingdom, first televised on ITV in 2000.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Private investigator

A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.

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Private prosecution

A private prosecution is a criminal proceeding initiated by an individual or private organisation (such as a prosecution association) instead of by a public prosecutor who represents the state.

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Pro bono

Pro bono publico (for the public good; usually shortened to pro bono) is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment.

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Protest

A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.

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Public inquiry

A tribunal of inquiry is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body.

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Publication ban

A publication ban is a court order which prohibits the public or media from disseminating certain details of an otherwise public judicial proceeding.

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Queen's Counsel

A Queen's Counsel (postnominal QC), or King's Counsel (postnominal KC) during the reign of a king, is an eminent lawyer (usually a barrister or advocate) who is appointed by the Monarch to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." The term is also recognised as an honorific.

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Race and crime in the United Kingdom

The relationship between race and crime in the United Kingdom is the subject of academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern.

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Reasonable suspicion

Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch; it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts", and the suspicion must be associated with the specific individual.

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Repeal

A repeal is the removal or reversal of a law.

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RMJM

RMJM (Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall) is one of Britain’s largest international architecture and design firms.

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Robbery

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.

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Robin Auld

Sir Robin Ernest Auld, (born 19 July 1937) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its charter granted in 1837 and Supplemental Charter granted in 1971.

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Scarman Report

The Scarman report was commissioned by the UK Government following the 1981 Brixton riots.

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Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.

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Secretary of State for Education

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Education (frequently shortened to the Education Secretary) is the chief minister of the Department for Education in the United Kingdom government.

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Social justice

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society.

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Socialist Review

The Socialist Review is the monthly magazine of the British Socialist Workers Party.

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South Circular Road, London

The South Circular Road (formally the A205 and often simply called the South Circular) in south London, England, is a major road that runs from the Woolwich Ferry in the east to the Chiswick Flyover in the west via Catford, Dulwich, Clapham Common, Wandsworth and Kew Bridge.

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Special education in England

Special education in England is the responsibility of the Government of the United Kingdom and the term "special educational needs" is used to describe the needs of children who need additional provision in order to make progress.

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Stab wound

A stab wound is a specific form of penetrating trauma to the skin that results from a knife or a similar pointed object that is "deeper than it is wide".

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Stephen Wright (journalist)

Stephen Wright is a British crime journalist working for the Daily Mail newspaper.

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Territorial designation

In the United Kingdom, a territorial designation follows modern peerage titles, linking them to a specific place or places.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Lawyer

The Lawyer is a monthly British magazine for commercial lawyers and in-house counsel, first published in 1987.

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The Life Scientific

The Life Scientific is a BBC Radio 4 science programme, presented by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, in which each episode is dedicated to the biography and work of one living scientist.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Theresa May

Theresa Mary May (Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016.

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Toxteth

Toxteth is an inner city area of Liverpool, England.

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Undercover operation

To go "undercover" is to avoid detection by the entity one is observing, and especially to disguise one's own identity or use an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn or confirm confidential information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gather information or evidence.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Well Hall

Well Hall is a place to the north of Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London, England, with no present formal boundaries and located east-southeast of Charing Cross.

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Whistleblower

A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.

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White British

White British is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census.

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William Macpherson (judge)

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny (born William Alan Macpherson on 1 April 1926 in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross) is a retired High Court judge, and the 27th Hereditary Chief of the Clan Macpherson.

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Zebra crossing

A zebra crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing used in many places around the world.

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1981 England riots

In 1981, England suffered serious riots across many major cities.

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1993 Welling riots

On 16 October 1993, an anti-racism march near Welling in South East London turned violent, leading to large-scale clashes between police and protesters which left around 70 people injured.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence

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