Lawrence killers jailed for ‘terrible and evil crime’

A JUDGE jailed two white men yesterday for the “evil” murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993, one of Britain’s most notorious racist crimes which prompted a major police overhaul.

On Tuesday, Gary Dobson, aged 36, and David Norris, aged 35, were found guilty by a jury of being part of a gang of white youths who stabbed the 18-year-old to death in an unprovoked attack at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London.

Handing down the sentences in a packed courtroom at London’s Old Bailey, Judge Colman Treacy said Lawrence’s murder was a “terrible and evil crime” committed for “no other reason than racial hatred”.