Steven Lawrence

[Guest 80s casual]

FFS is this ever going to be put to bed....

[Ugly Mackems 134]

FFS is this ever going to be put to bed....

You think Plod should have just let it lie?

[sniffer 0]

Not while there's a chance they can fit somebody up for it.

 

And keep the PC squad happy.

[Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0]

If there is evidence there, they should by tried. That's what justice is all about isn't it? I presume the Crown Prosecution Service must think there is a case to answer or it wouldn't have got this far.

 

And if they are guilty I hope they rot.

[Guest 80s casual]

FFS is this ever going to be put to bed....

You think Plod should have just let it lie?

 

Yes, the kids have been found NOT Guilty, and do you really think they will get a fair trial now.

[Ugly Mackems 134]

FFS is this ever going to be put to bed....

You think Plod should have just let it lie?

 

Yes, the kids have been found NOT Guilty, and do you really think they will get a fair trial now.

New evidence has came to light. It is right and proper that they should now have to explain themselves before a jury of their peers. The law on double jeapardy has changed and if new evidence arises you CAN be tried twice for the same offense.

[Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0]

The one that was found not guilty was a private prosecution, this'll be a criminal prosecution.

[luckyluke 2]

Yes Gemmill

[LeazesMag 0]

Yes Gemmill

 

[Rob W 0]

The one that was found not guilty was a private prosecution, this'll be a criminal prosecution.

 

 

There is also some evidence that the local police, knowing the accused were related to "well known London families" destroyed evidence at the time

[Guest alex]

The one that was found not guilty was a private prosecution, this'll be a criminal prosecution.

 

 

There is also some evidence that the local police, knowing the accused were related to "well known London families" destroyed evidence at the time

Do you have a source for that?

[Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0]

Weren't the Met found to be 'instituutionally racist' in the investigation into their original handling of the case?

[Guest alex]

Weren't the Met found to be 'instituutionally racist' in the investigation into their original handling of the case?

I think that essentially related to their basically writing it off as a drug-related killing purely on the basis it was a black lad killed in South London.

[GeeForce 0]

My head is up my arse this morning. I looked at the thred title and rather than linking Stephen Lawrence to the little black lad who was killed I for some reason linked it to Liam Lawrence the blonde twat who used to play for the Mackems who got caught shagging that lass with a few others and thought the thread was about that. It's gonna be a long day!

[LeazesMag 0]

The one that was found not guilty was a private prosecution, this'll be a criminal prosecution.

 

 

There is also some evidence that the local police, knowing the accused were related to "well known London families" destroyed evidence at the time

Do you have a source for that?

 

he's been taking too much medication again

[Gemmill 47084]

The one that was found not guilty was a private prosecution, this'll be a criminal prosecution.

 

 

There is also some evidence that the local police, knowing the accused were related to "well known London families" destroyed evidence at the time

Do you have a source for that?

 

he's been taking too much medication again

 

He wants to half it with you.

[Rob W 0]

The one that was found not guilty was a private prosecution, this'll be a criminal prosecution.

 

 

There is also some evidence that the local police, knowing the accused were related to "well known London families" destroyed evidence at the time

Do you have a source for that?

 

On 25 July 2006, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced it had asked the Metropolitan Police to look into alleged claims of police corruption that may have helped hide the killers of Lawrence.

 

A BBC investigation alleged that the murder inquiry's Det. Sgt. John Davidson had taken money from known drug smuggler Clifford Norris, the father of David Norris, a chief suspect in the investigation. Neil Putnam, a former corrupt police detective turned whistleblower, told a BBC investigation that Clifford Norris was paying Mr Davidson to obstruct the case and to protect the suspects. "Davidson told me that he was looking after Norris and that to me meant that he was protecting him, protecting his family against arrest and any conviction," Putnam said. Davidson denied any such corruption.

 

The Metropolitan Police Service announced it was to open up a special incident room to field calls from the public, following the BBC documentary The Boys Who Killed Stephen Lawrence. The Independent Police Complaints Commission later stated the claims made in the programme were unfounded.

 

On 17 December 2009 Independent Police Complaints Commission investigators and officers from the Metropolitan Police's directorate of professional standards arrested a former police constable and a serving member of Metropolitan Police staff on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice by allegedly withholding evidence from the original murder inquiry, the Kent investigation and the Macpherson inquiry. Dr Richard Stone, who sat on the Macpherson inquiry, commented that the panel had felt that; "There was a large amount of information that the police were either not processing or were suppressing" and "a strong smell of corruption". Baroness Ros Howells, patron of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, agreed; "Lots of people said they gave the police evidence which was never produced.

[TheMoog 0]

Sad really, I just dislike the way the media/society feel the need to make so much of a black youth getting murdered by a white gang whereas they tend to be far less bothered if a white youth gets murdered by a black/ethnic gang. No wonder there's so much hatred going around both ways, it gets stirred up so badly.

[luckyluke 2]

Sad really, I just dislike the way the media/society feel the need to make so much of a black youth getting murdered by a white gang whereas they tend to be far less bothered if a white youth gets murdered by a black/ethnic gang. No wonder there's so much hatred going around both ways, it gets stirred up so badly.

 

What complete and utter nonsense.

[TheMoog 0]

Sad really, I just dislike the way the media/society feel the need to make so much of a black youth getting murdered by a white gang whereas they tend to be far less bothered if a white youth gets murdered by a black/ethnic gang. No wonder there's so much hatred going around both ways, it gets stirred up so badly.

 

What complete and utter nonsense.

 

Really? You think? I beg to differ:

 

The media was criticised for their lack of coverage of the Ross Parker case in comparison to similar racist murders occurring in the UK, such as the case of Anthony Walker and that of Stephen Lawrence. The BBC later admitted that "it was a mistake not to report the case of Ross Parker more extensively", noting the "stark" parallels with the Walker case and that the crime was "worthy of coverage" "by any standards". Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Kelvin McKenzie expressed similar sentiments, with the latter criticising newspapers including his own employer of The Sun. He stated "if you believe you're a victim of an ethnic minority and you're white there is nowhere to go. Editors are so liberal that they are scared to be seen that they're moving to the right of their paper". Ross' mother Davina Parker expressed similar concerns noting "because we are white, English, we didn't get the coverage" In 2006 a Times article by Brendan Montague on racist murders in Britain stated searching newspaper archives shows "an almost total boycott of stories involving the white victims of attacks" whereas "cases involving black and minority ethnic victims are widely reported".

 

Others have noted that the lack of coverage isn't simply a media issue. Peter Fahy, the spokesman on race issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers states “a lot of police officers and other professionals feel almost the best thing to do is to try and avoid [discussing such attacks] for fear of being criticised. This is not healthy.”

[luckyluke 2]

Sad really, I just dislike the way the media/society feel the need to make so much of a black youth getting murdered by a white gang whereas they tend to be far less bothered if a white youth gets murdered by a black/ethnic gang. No wonder there's so much hatred going around both ways, it gets stirred up so badly.

 

What complete and utter nonsense.

 

Really? You think? I beg to differ:

 

The media was criticised for their lack of coverage of the Ross Parker case in comparison to similar racist murders occurring in the UK, such as the case of Anthony Walker and that of Stephen Lawrence. The BBC later admitted that "it was a mistake not to report the case of Ross Parker more extensively", noting the "stark" parallels with the Walker case and that the crime was "worthy of coverage" "by any standards". Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Kelvin McKenzie expressed similar sentiments, with the latter criticising newspapers including his own employer of The Sun. He stated "if you believe you're a victim of an ethnic minority and you're white there is nowhere to go. Editors are so liberal that they are scared to be seen that they're moving to the right of their paper". Ross' mother Davina Parker expressed similar concerns noting "because we are white, English, we didn't get the coverage" In 2006 a Times article by Brendan Montague on racist murders in Britain stated searching newspaper archives shows "an almost total boycott of stories involving the white victims of attacks" whereas "cases involving black and minority ethnic victims are widely reported".

 

Others have noted that the lack of coverage isn't simply a media issue. Peter Fahy, the spokesman on race issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers states “a lot of police officers and other professionals feel almost the best thing to do is to try and avoid [discussing such attacks] for fear of being criticised. This is not healthy.”

 

Sounds like people pushing a pseudo racist agenda more than anything else. There's plenty of gang crime with black/"ethnic" (wtf?) as the perpetrators reported. Regardless, the Lawrence case is obviously a notable one so your moaning about attention being paid to an unsolved racist murder is irrelevant and rather unpalatable.

[TheMoog 0]

Sad really, I just dislike the way the media/society feel the need to make so much of a black youth getting murdered by a white gang whereas they tend to be far less bothered if a white youth gets murdered by a black/ethnic gang. No wonder there's so much hatred going around both ways, it gets stirred up so badly.

 

What complete and utter nonsense.

 

Really? You think? I beg to differ:

 

The media was criticised for their lack of coverage of the Ross Parker case in comparison to similar racist murders occurring in the UK, such as the case of Anthony Walker and that of Stephen Lawrence. The BBC later admitted that "it was a mistake not to report the case of Ross Parker more extensively", noting the "stark" parallels with the Walker case and that the crime was "worthy of coverage" "by any standards". Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Kelvin McKenzie expressed similar sentiments, with the latter criticising newspapers including his own employer of The Sun. He stated "if you believe you're a victim of an ethnic minority and you're white there is nowhere to go. Editors are so liberal that they are scared to be seen that they're moving to the right of their paper". Ross' mother Davina Parker expressed similar concerns noting "because we are white, English, we didn't get the coverage" In 2006 a Times article by Brendan Montague on racist murders in Britain stated searching newspaper archives shows "an almost total boycott of stories involving the white victims of attacks" whereas "cases involving black and minority ethnic victims are widely reported".

 

Others have noted that the lack of coverage isn't simply a media issue. Peter Fahy, the spokesman on race issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers states “a lot of police officers and other professionals feel almost the best thing to do is to try and avoid [discussing such attacks] for fear of being criticised. This is not healthy.”

 

Sounds like people pushing a pseudo racist agenda more than anything else. There's plenty of gang crime with black/"ethnic" (wtf?) as the perpetrators reported. Regardless, the Lawrence case is obviously a notable one so your moaning about attention being paid to an unsolved racist murder is irrelevant and rather unpalatable.

 

Uh huh

[sniffer 0]

Sounds just as much like you are pushing a racist agenda, LL.

[luckyluke 2]

Sounds just as much like you are pushing a racist agenda, LL.

 

This is a bit like CT criticising my grammar.