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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Son who saw mum stabbed to death when he was 3 says 'racist' bungling police must pay

A son who watched a man stab his mum to death in a horrific murder says "racist" cops should pay up after they bungled her case.

Rachel Nickell, 23, was walking her dog with her toddler son Alex Hanscombe near their home on Wimbledon Common in 1992 when she was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in broad daylight.

Her killer Robert Napper was only convicted of her murder in 2008, with a Metropolitan Police inquiry later finding there had been a "catalogue of errors" in their handling of the case.

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