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‘Another shocking failure’ as Met chief Sir Mark Rowley issues apology to Stephen Lawrence's mother

Source: PA

SCOTLAND Yard was today accused of a “shocking level of failure” after Sir Mark Rowley was forced to apologise to the mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence for breaking a promise to update her on an aborted probe into a sixth suspect.

The Met Commissioner said the

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