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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maya Oppenheim

‘My husband drowned after white men threw him in River Thames’

Theresa Roberts

A Jamaican philanthropist has revealed her husband drowned in the River Thames in London after white men threw him in the water as a “joke”.

Theresa Roberts said she believed Vere Skeete’s death in 1979 was not taken seriously at the time because he was black.

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