BACKGROUND: (Wikipedia); Stephen Lawrence (13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993) was a Black British teenager from Eltham, south east London, who was murdered in a racial attack while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993.[1] Witnesses said he was attacked by a gang of white youths chanting racist slogans.[2] After the initial investigation, five suspects were arrested but not convicted.[3] It was suggested during the course of investigation that the murder had a racist motive and that Lawrence was killed because he was black, and that the handling of the case by the police and Crown Prosecution Service was affected by issues of race. A public inquiry was held in 1999,[4] headed by Sir William Macpherson that examined the original Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) investigation and concluded that the force was "institutionally racist". The inquiry has been called 'one of the most important moments in the modern history of criminal justice in Britain'.[5] The then–Home Secretary Jack Straw commented in 2012 that ordering the inquiry was "the single most important decision I made as Home Secretary".[6] The results of the inquiry were published in 1999 as the Macpherson Report. On 18 May 2011, following a cold case review,[7] it was announced that two of the original suspects, Gary Dobson and David Norris, were to stand trial for the murder in the light of "new and substantial evidence" becoming available.[8] A jury was selected on Monday 14 November 2011, and the trial started on the following day. On 3 January 2012, Dobson and Norris were found guilty of Lawrence's murder,[9] and were sentenced on 4 January 2012 to recommended minimum life terms of 15 and 14 years respectively[10] for what the judge described as a "terrible and evil crime".[11] The sentences would have been far longer but the crime had been committed before adulthood, requiring sentencing as juveniles.[11]
ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT CAN BE FOUND AT:
STORY: "The science that helped convict Gary Dobson," by reporter Paul Peachey, published in the Independent on January 3, 2012."
GIST: "This was a breakthrough, and as close as the undemonstrative Mr. Jarman would concede to a eureka moment. It was, he conceded, "a very significant finding." The discovery gave fresh impetus to the search. If a bead of blood was found, surely it must be more likely that more could be found on the jacket? At the time of the murder, the science was not far enough advanced to check for tiny specks of blood, so the scientists did not bother with anything more than a search with the naked eye. But from around 2000, DNA science was far enough advanced to put bloodstains of less than one millemetre through full DNA analysis."
THE ENTIRE STORY CAN BE FOUND AT:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-science-that-helped-convict-gary-dobson-6284465.html
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog; hlevy15@gmail.com;
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