Doreen Lawrence recalls being stopped by police shortly after son's killing
by Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent from on (#55EH0)
Peer was pulled over and told to get out of her car late at night, she tells parliamentary committee
Doreen Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racially motivated attack in 1993, has told how she was stopped by police while driving late at night shortly after the killing.
Giving evidence to parliament's joint committee on human rights on Monday during an inquiry on Black people, racism and human rights", Lady Lawrence recalled her experience of being pulled over due to what she implied was racial profiling.
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