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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Detectives accused of bungling first Stephen Lawrence inquiry will not face charges

Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence, who was stabbed to death by a racist gang of at least five white youths in south-east London on 22 April 1993. Photograph: Family handout/PA

The mother of Stephen Lawrence has said it was a “disgrace” for prosecutors to decide not to bring charges against four senior detectives accused of bungling the first investigation into the teenager’s murder.

The Crown Prosecution Service spent more than two years considering whether the errors made in the weeks after the 18-year-old was murdered were so serious that they amounted to the criminal offence of misconduct in public office.

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