When Yumiko Takada, 43, moved to Eltham around a decade ago, she did not know why fresh flowers often surrounded a small roadside memorial plaque.
She was shocked to later learn it was the spot where Stephen Lawrence had died in a racist attack at just 18. “I saw the plaque but I didn’t know the name. When I came to know [about] it, I was shocked … It’s just wrong,” she said on Friday, the day before the 30th anniversary of his death.
