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UK: Five police forces investigated over alleged Stephen Lawrence smear campaign

06 July 2013

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"The investigation into alleged police attempts to smear the Stephen Lawrence campaign and undermine the credibility of witnesses attending the Macpherson inquiry into the black teenager’s racist murder is focusing on the activities of five forces, The Independent has learnt.
Investigators are understood to be waiting for senior officers from Avon and Somerset Constabulary and West Midlands Police to complete urgent trawls of their records in relation to possible surveillance or intelligence gathering operations carried out in Bristol and Birmingham.
The cities, alongside Bradford and Manchester, hosted regional sittings of the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998 where race relations campaigners aired a string of grievances against their local forces over stop and search and other flashpoint issues."

See the full article: Five police forces investigated over alleged Stephen Lawrence smear campaign (Independent, link)

And see: Police admit bugging Stephen Lawrence murder witness - Senior officer gave authorisation to record at least one meeting with Duwayne Brooks (Guardian, link)

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