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HAS ANYTHING REALLY CHANGED?

It’s a moment etched in Baroness Doreen Lawrence’s mind. When she saw her neighbours at her front door, and heard her son Stephen’s name, she knew something terrible had happened. He’d been attacked, they said, and he was hurt. But they knew little else so Baroness Lawrence and her husband Neville went out looking for their son. It was 22 April 1993 and after 10.30pm, so it was dark. They made their way to the local hospital where doctors explained Stephen had been brought in. After a torturous wait in a family room, they were given the devastating news that their son was dead. ‘I looked at them as if to say, “How do you

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