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Met apologises for 'wholly indefensible' use of undercover officers to spy on Doreen Lawrence and her family

Baroness Lawrence has accused police of trying to pit her and her ex-husband against each other and manipulate their relationship in the wake of their son's murder

Evening Standard

Doreen Lawrence: ‘I haven’t had the opportunity to grieve my son properly for 32 years’

Baroness Doreen Lawrence gave evidence to the public inquiry into undercover policing

The Independent UK

I haven’t been able to grieve my son properly for 32 years – Doreen Lawrence

The peer told a public inquiry she had to constantly battle for justice and her family had been punished despite her son having done nothing wrong.

Evening Standard

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Spycops inquiry: Doreen Lawrence says she does not believe ex-home secretary

Stephen Lawrence’s mother tells inquiry she did not believe Michael Howard when he told her he did not know police had spied on her family

The Guardian - UK

Police ‘tried to pit grieving parents of Stephen Lawrence against each other’

Baroness Lawrence told the public inquiry into undercover policing that officers tried to manipulate her relationship with her ex-husband Neville.

Evening Standard

Doreen Lawrence tells of disbelief at claim police looked to ‘smear’ family

Baroness Lawrence is giving evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Evening Standard

Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry

Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry

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Ex-officer accused of racism takes legal action to avoid facing spycops inquiry

Whistleblower testified that man known as HN86 gathered information to undermine Lawrence family campaign

The Guardian - UK

Police spying on Stephen Lawrence family ‘rewarded by those at the top’ – mother

Baroness Doreen Lawrence has rejected an apology made by the Metropolitan Police earlier in the inquiry.

Evening Standard

Whistleblowing ex-police spy has become ‘an inconvenient truth’

Peter Francis cannot apologise for telling the truth about undercover police tactics, his lawyer has told a public inquiry.

Evening Standard

Doreen Lawrence alleges Home Office was involved in Met spying on family

‘Egregious’ police surveillance was sanctioned by government department, mother of Stephen Lawrence tells inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Undercover police inquiry to hear justice campaigners’ ‘deeply moving’ evidence

The latest stage of a public inquiry looking at the activities of a secret Metropolitan Police squad began on Monday.

Evening Standard

Neville Lawrence welcomes chance for undercover police evidence to be aired

Neville Lawrence said the surveillance by police moles who posed as anti-racism campaigners in the late 1990s was ‘bewildering and insulting’.

The Independent UK

Neville Lawrence welcomes chance for undercover police evidence to be aired

Metropolitan Police spies infiltrated groups supporting the justice campaign for murdered Stephen Lawrence in the 1990s.

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The Guardian - UK

This society lauded a police officer who lied and cheated and ruined lives. At last, a reckoning

As a ‘spy cop’, Bob Lambert callously betrayed innocent women. The official inquiry must ask harsh questions of him – and the state, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Newcastle Herald

Raymond Terrace 'legend' Brooke Roach named Port Stephens' Citizen of the Year

For his extensive contributions to the community through sport, as a volunteer and his work with Indigenous youth, Brooke Roach has been named Port Stephens' Citizen of the Year for 2022.

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