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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Steve Leblanc

Boston mayor will formally apologize to Black men wrongly accused in 1989 Carol Stuart murder

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It was a notorious murder that rattled Boston to its core, coarsened divisions in a city long riven along racial lines, and renewed suspicion and anger directed at the Boston Police Department by the city’s Black community.

On Wednesday, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu plans to formally apologize on behalf of the city to Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett for their wrongful arrests following the 1989 death of Carol Stuart, whose husband, Charles Stuart, had orchestrated her killing.

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