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Stephen Lawrence killer David Norris is furious at being transferred to one of the UK’s bleakest jails 

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Stephen Lawrence killer David Norris is furious at being transferred to one of the UK’s bleakest jails 

STEPHEN Lawrence killer David Norris is said to be furious at being transferred to one of the UK’s bleakest jails. Norris, 45, was moved out of Cat-B HMP Garth, Lancs, now he is deemed a lower-risk inmate. But he was “incensed” by the switch to HMP Dartmoor, Devon.

A source said: “Norris was delighted when told he was being moved to a lower category prison. But this turned to anger when he was told it was Dartmoor, notorious for being isolated and bleak.

“It is also hundreds of miles from his home manor and hard to visit.”Norris got a minimum of 14 years in 2012 for the 1993 racist murder of Stephen, 18, in Eltham, South East London

In the event, Dobson was given at least 15 years and two months behind bars while Norris was told he must serve at least 14 years and three months before being considered for release. 

Stephen Lawrence, 18, was murdered on 22 April 1993. He was waiting for a bus in Eltham, south-east London, with his friend Duwayne Brooks when a group of white men of similar age attacked him. One was heard to say “what what nigger” before a knife was plunged twice into the teenager, severing two arteries. He had done nothing to provoke his attackers. At the time of his death, Stephen was taking his A-levels and planned to study architecture at university. 

Neville Lawrence, a carpenter, upholsterer, tailor, and plasterer who had emigrated to the UK from Jamaica in the 1960s, was living with his wife Doreen and their three children in Plumstead, south-east London when his eldest son Stephen was murdered. Mr. Lawrence and his then-wife, Doreen, spent many years campaigning for justice for their son believing the police investigation had been inadequate. Events took their toll on their marriage and Mr. Lawrence returned to live in Jamaica. The couple divorced in 1999. Following the announcement of a new public inquiry into undercover policing, Mr. Lawrence said he still feared that the full truth about the police investigation into his son’s death would not emerge. 

Doreen Lawrence was living with her husband Neville and their three children in southeast London when her eldest son Stephen was murdered. Having emigrated from Jamaica as a child, she began a family in the UK after marrying Neville in 1972. Alongside her husband, she campaigned tirelessly for justice for her murdered son. In 1998, she set up the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, which gives bursaries to young people who want to become architects. Mrs. Lawrence has created a life peer in 2013 and she sits on the Labour benches as a working peer.

Author: Linda .R. Jones

London, UK

lindarj83@gmail.com

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