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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd

Stephen Lawrence: Met’s decision to stop looking for killers to be reviewed

Stephen Lawrence, a black man who is wearing a black and white t shirt, looks at the camera.
Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in south-east London in 1993. Photograph: Metropolitan police/AFP/Getty Images

The Met police’s decision to shut down the hunt for the racist killers of Stephen Lawrence is to be reviewed, with police admitting “serious mistakes” are still being made in the case, the Guardian has learned.

At least three of the gang believed to have chased, surrounded and stabbed Stephen, who was 18, near a south-east London bus stop in April 1993 are still free, with two men convicted of his murder in 2012..

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