Former Met police chief admits surveillance of Stephen Lawrence’s family was institutionally racist
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Paul Condon tells spycops inquiry force failed to properly control unit which committed ‘horrendous’ abuses
A former Metropolitan police commissioner has admitted that the surveillance of the family of Stephen Lawrence by undercover officers was institutionally racist, the spycops inquiry has heard.
While Paul Condon was in command of the Metropolitan police in the 1990s, a controversial undercover unit spied on the family as they sought to persuade Scotland Yard to properly investigate Lawrence’s racist murder.
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