Two men were found guilty Tuesday of a racist killing of a young black man in London nearly 20 years ago, one of the most notorious unsolved murders in recent British history, according to dpa. Stephen Lawrence, aged 18, was stabbed to death by a gang of white youths in an unprovoked attack while waiting for a bus in south-east London in April 1993. Five men, including the two found guilty Tuesday, were initially acquitted of the crime, after a police investigation became so bungled it led to an official inquiry that branded London's Metropolitan Police "institutionally racist. " After new forensic evidence, Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris,35, were found guilty at the Old Bailey, the central criminal courtof England and Wales, on Tuesday. They are set to be sentenced on Wednesday. Only a long campaign by Lawrence's parents, Neville and Doreen, kept the case in the public eye, and resulted in the retrial. The Metropolitan Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Cressida Dicksaid after the verdict that it was still not "the end of the road" in the search for the remaining killers. -- SPA
