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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rob Evans

Spycops inquiry: Doreen Lawrence says she does not believe ex-home secretary

Doreen Lawrence is wearing a dark blue coat and a black beanie
Doreen Lawrence arriving to give evidence to the spycops inquiry on Thursday. She said the covert surveillance on her family was ‘disrespectful and dehumanising’. Photograph: James Manning/PA

The mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told a public inquiry that she does not believe claims by the former home secretary Michael Howard that he did not know undercover police officers had spied on her family.

Doreen Lawrence told the spycops inquiry on Thursday that Lord Howard, a former leader of the Conservative party, invited her to a meeting shortly after the inquiry was set up in 2014.

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