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Kelso Cochrane had arrived in England from Antigua in 1954,

and was murdered in Notting Hill in May 1959.

Photograph: Keystone Press/Alamy

The truth about this unsolved murder is finally coming to light.

Here’s what it reveals about racism in Britain

Kelso Cochrane was stabbed to death in 1959.

After 65 years,

newly released files show the Met has questions to answer

G

Sat 20 Jul 2024    09.00 CEST

Last modified on Sat 20 Jul 2024    12.06 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/20/
kelso-cochrane-murder-racism-britain-met-police

racial murders

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/22/
ukcrime.race

racist murder

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/24/
race.ukcrime 

Christopher Alaneme (1987-2006)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/09/
ukcrime.mainsection

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/apr/29/
race.ukcrime 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4941280.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/4945972.stm

racist murder

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/24/
race.ukcrime

The Guardian        p. 1        17 November 2005

Ice axe victim was racially taunted before murder, court told

· Jury shown weapon used to kill 18-year-old

· Victim and friends were racially abused, trial hears

Helen Carter

The Guardian

p. 3

Thursday November 17, 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/17/
ukcrime.helencarter

Liverpool pleure Anthony Walker

Jeudi 25 août 2005 - 18:04

Libération.fr

Les funérailles d'Anthony Walker,

victime d'un crime raciste le 29 juillet à Liverpool,

ont rassemblé jeudi des centaines de personnes

dans la cathédrale anglicane de la ville.

Le jeune homme,

un élève de terminale âgé de 18 ans,

a été tué d'un coup de hache à la tête

alors qu'il se trouvait dans un jardin public

proche de son domicile,

à Huyton, dans la banlieue de Liverpool.

Après avoir subi des insultes racistes alors qu'il attendait un bus

avec sa petite amie et son cousin, les trois jeunes se sont enfuis,

mais leurs agresseurs ont rattrapé Anthony.

Son amie et son cousin, partis chercher des secours,

l'ont retrouvé baignant dans son sang,

une hache plantée dans le crâne.

Anthony Walker est mort peu après à l'hôpital.

Le crime a suscité une forte émotion à Liverpool

et à travers tout le pays.

De nombreux bouquets et messages

ont été déposés à l'endroit où la victime a été retrouvée.

Mardi, deux hommes âgés de 17 et 20 ans

arrêtés quelques jours après le meurtre

ont été maintenus en détention jusqu'au 21 octobre.

Libération.fr        25 August 2005

http://www.liberation.fr/
page.php?Article=313053&Template=GALERIE&Objet=44120 - broken link

1 December 2005

Schrank

The Independent

4 December 2005

L to R:

Anthony Walker's mother,

Jesus,

US President George W. Bush,

British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Anthony Walker murder        2005

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/20/
racism-is-killing-our-children-gee-walker-on-the-of-her-beloved-son-anthony

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/28/
race.ukcrime 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/01/ukcrime.race 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/01/race.ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/01/race.ukcrime1 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/30/race.ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/30/ukcrime.race

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/30/race.world 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/24/ukcrime1 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/23/ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/21/ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/17/ukcrime.helencarter 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/16/ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/nov/15/ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/26/race.world 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/25/race.world 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/06/race.ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/02/race.ukcrime1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/aug/03/race.ukcrime

Peter Brookes

comment cartoon

The Times

2 August 2005

Related

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/03/
race.ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/02/
race.ukcrime1

Stephen Lawrence (1974-1993) murder        22 April 1993

Stephen Lawrence is stabbed to death

in an unprovoked attack

by a gang of white youths

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/lawrence

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/19/
stephen-lawrence-timeline-of-key-events

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/feb/22/
racism-britain-macpherson-report-stephen-lawrence-
murder-inquiry-metropolitan-police

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/21/
memories-still-painful-25-years-after-stephen-lawrence

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/21/
rolan-adams-murdered-1991-father-richard-adams-
chiling-similarities-stepehen-lawrence-killing

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/20/
investigators-turned-blind-eye-to-lawrence-killers-fathers-corruption

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/19/
stephen-lawrence-timeline-of-key-events

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/19/
corrupt-met-officers-protected-family-of-stephen-lawrence-murderer

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/18/
police-too-slow-to-change-after-stephen-lawrence

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/17/
stephen-lawrence-police-officer-allegedly-spied-family-identified-david-hagan

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/08/
stephen-lawrence-new-images-of-potential-witness-released

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/09/
lawrences-sins-of-surveillance-exposed-inquiry-undercover-policing

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/07/
lawrence-revelations-institutional-racism-met-police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/16/
stephen-lawrence-family-undercover-police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/25/
stephen-lawrence-mother-home-secretary-smear-claims

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/23/
stephen-lawrence-undercover-police-smears

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/09/
stephen-lawrence-brother-racism-police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/12/
doreen-lawrence-i-got-quite-emotional

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/01/
stephen-lawrence-theresa-may-review-police-corruption

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-transcripts-macpherson-inquiry

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/04/
dobson-norris-murder-stephen-lawrence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-murder-reaction-sentencing-gary-dobson-david-norris

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-sentencing-remarks-text

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-killers-sentenced-juveniles

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-parents-daily-mail

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/04/
lawrence-dailymail

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-transcripts-macpherson-inquiry

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/03/
stephen-lawrence-murder-britain-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-murder-sentencing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/03/justice-for-stephen-lawrence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/03/stephen-lawrence-parents-grieve

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/03/doreen-lawrence-convictions-celebration

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/03/stephen-lawrence-racist-pair-suspicion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/03/stephen-lawrence-police-nine-suspects

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2012/jan/03/neville-lawrence-statement-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2012/jan/03/stephen-lawrence-murder-trial-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/03/
stephen-lawrence-generation-shame-editorial 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/17/stephen-lawrence-best-friend-evidence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/18/stephen-lawrence-suspects-stand-trial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/may/18/doreen-lawrence-hopes-justice-will-be-done

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/18/double-jeopardy-stephen-lawrence-suspect

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/may/18/stephen-lawrence-case-open-justice

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/01/stephen-lawrence-hidden-evidence-claim

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/21/doreen-lawrence-police-racism

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/audio/2009/feb/21/doreen-lawrence-racism-police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/21/stephen-lawrence-racism-macpherson-report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/20/stephen-lawrence-murder-timeline

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2009/feb/20/jackstraw-lawrence

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/nov/08/ukcrime.lawrence

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/28/lawrence.ukcrime 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/27/lawrence.ukcrime

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/27/lawrence.ukcrime1 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jul/27/comment.lawrence 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/26/ukcrime.vikramdodd 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/10/race.world 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/21/race.world

Timeline > Stephen Lawrence case

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/20/
stephen-lawrence-murder-timeline

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/nov/08/
lawrence.ukcrime

THE STEPHEN LAWRENCE INQUIRY

REPORT OF AN INQUIRY

BY SIR WILLIAM MACPHERSON OF CLUNY

ADVISED BY

TOM COOK,

THE RIGHT REVEREND DR JOHN SENTAMU,

DR RICHARD STONE

Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State

for the Home Department by Command of Her Majesty.

February 1999        Cm 4262-I

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/07/
lawrence-revelations-institutional-racism-met-police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/04/
stephen-lawrence-transcripts-macpherson-inquiry

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/
the-stephen-lawrence-inquiry - 24 February 1999 

Stephen Lawrence > Benjamin Zephaniah

"We know who the killers are,

https://benjaminzephaniah.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/benjamin-zephaniah

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/25/
benjamin-zephaniah-revolutionary-minds

Michael Menson murder        1997

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/dec/22/race.world5 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/dec/21/race.world

Zahid Mubarek murder        21 March 2000

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/09/
mubarek-amin-my-son-zahid-was-murdered-by-racist-we-are-monster

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/30/
we-are-monster-review-zahid-mubarek-robert-stewart

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3198264.stm - 29 June 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4021285.stm - 28 June 2006

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/06/uknews 

http://www.theguardian.com/celldeaths/article/0,2763,997660,00.html  - 14 July 2003

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3198264.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4315153.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4021285.stm

Protesters demonstrating in Whitehall, London,

two weeks after the murder of Kelso Cochrane in 1959.

Photograph: John Franks

Getty Images

The truth about this unsolved murder is finally coming to light.

Here’s what it reveals about racism in Britain

Kelso Cochrane was stabbed to death in 1959.

After 65 years,

newly released files show the Met has questions to answer

G

Sat 20 Jul 2024    09.00 CEST

Last modified on Sat 20 Jul 2024    12.06 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/20/
kelso-cochrane-murder-racism-britain-met-police

Kelso Cochrane had arrived in England from Antigua in 1954,

and was murdered in Notting Hill in May 1959.

Photograph: Keystone Press/Alamy

The truth about this unsolved murder is finally coming to light.

Here’s what it reveals about racism in Britain

Kelso Cochrane was stabbed to death in 1959.

After 65 years,

newly released files show the Met has questions to answer

G

Sat 20 Jul 2024    09.00 CEST

Last modified on Sat 20 Jul 2024    12.06 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/20/
kelso-cochrane-murder-racism-britain-met-police

Kelso Cochrane

(26 September 1926 – 17 May 1959)        UK

At roughly midnight on 17 May 1959,

Kelso Cochrane,

a 32-year-old carpenter from Antigua,

was ambushed by a group of white youths

on a derelict street corner of Notting Hill in London.

He was walking home from hospital

after getting his broken thumb treated,

and one of the attackers stabbed him in the heart.

The next day,

antiracism campaigners wrote

to the prime minister, Harold Macmillan,

comparing his murder to the lynchings

then taking place in the American deep south.

But the police had already decided

that racism was not the motive for the crime

– just as they initially did

more than three decades later,

when the black teenager Stephen Lawrence

was murdered

in strikingly similar circumstances.

In 2012,

when two men were finally convicted

of Lawrence’s murder

after a long and tireless campaign by his parents,

he received a measure of justice.

Cochrane never did.

His murder remains unsolved 65 years on.

After a protracted effort

by members of Cochrane’s

surviving family and their lawyers,

the Metropolitan police agreed

that the National Archives could release files

the family hoped would answer their questions.

The files – which were due to be opened in 2054 –

leave little doubt that Cochrane’s murder

was indeed a lynching,

as antiracism campaigners claimed at the time.

They also raise questions about the police’s

efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice

in the decades since then.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/20/
kelso-cochrane-murder-racism-britain-met-police

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/20/
kelso-cochrane-murder-racism-britain-met-police

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