Doreen Lawrence alleges Home Office was involved in Met spying on family

Doreen Lawrence said during the course of her grief she was ‘quite undeservedly and unlawfully spied upon by those meant to serve and protect her’. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

The mother of Stephen Lawrence has alleged at the undercover policing public inquiry that the Home Office was “directly involved” in the “egregious and unlawful” surveillance of her family’s campaign for justice.

Doreen Lawrence also questioned why a politician who had held the post of home secretary had “keenly” sought her out and was “at pains to reassure her” that the government department “had nothing to do” with the surveillance.