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| Doreen Lawrence |
LONDON, UK - Doreen will be taking her seat at the House of Lords today. The mother of the murdered London teenager Stephen Lawrence will be made a Labour peer and take the title of Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon.
Doreen Lawrence has led a long campaign to find out what
happened to her son, who was killed in a racially aggravated attack in
1993. Two men were eventually convicted of his murder in 2011.
Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence was stabbed by a gang of white youths as he waited for a bus in south London. An inquiry following the murder led the Metropolitan Police to be accused of institutional racism and found failings in how the force had investigated the crime.
There are 830 Lords who sit in the House of Lords and two of them are Afro-Carribean.
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