Victim’s clothes held in bag with suspect’s

A JACKET belonging to Stephen Lawrence was stored in the same outer bag as clothing seized from one of the men suspected of his murder, a court has heard.

Christopher Bower, a stores worker at a forensics laboratory in Lambeth, south London, told the Old Bailey that it was not standard practice to separate victims’ and suspects’ exhibits after they had been examined by scientists.

Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, deny taking part in the gang attack in which Lawrence was killed in Eltham, south-east London, in 1993.