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UK: Stephen Lawrence inquiry

01 November 1997

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The preliminary hearing into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black youth who was stabbed to death by a notorious racist gang in Eltham, south London, in April 1993, opened on 8 October. The purpose of the preliminary hearing, at Woolwich Town Hall, is "to explain the procedures of the inquiry and to consider applications for legal representation...". Former judge and SAS colonel, Sir William McPherson, said the hearing would focus on the killing, the police investigation and the unsuccessful prosecutions of five white men accused of being Stephen's killers. Witnesses to the murder have been offered limited immunity so that evidence given before the inquiry will not be used in any criminal prosecution against them. McPherson has still to decide if he will instruct the five white men - Neil and Jamie Acourt, David Norris, Luke Knight and Gary Dobson - who are believed to have murdered Stephen to attend court. The full hearing will open in 1998, after the completion of a Police Complaints Authority report.

Home Office press release 19.9.97.

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