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I still rate 'The Colour of Justice' [...] as one of the highlights of my reviewing life. Michael Billington --The Guardian
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In 1993, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict. Based on the harrowing transcripts of the public inquiry, this is a dramatic reconstruction of the hearings which reflected the national outcry at the police's mishandling of the case. First seen at the Tricycle Theatre, London, this remarkable production received instant acclaim and subsequently transferred to the West End.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The colour of justice is very special in the way it was compiled. I say compiled as that's just how it came about from the 11,000 pages of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor.
The Language is so real as it has come from the very words spoken from the inquiry. It is no potencious arty farty modern play stuff - it's the way it was!
Taylor picks the essentials from the inquiry and take - I feel - a remarkably non-byost outlook from both sides and, in a way, allows you to make up your own ideas.
Many issuesed raised will continue to be disputed for many years to come.
The Language is so real as it has come from the very words spoken from the inquiry. It is no potencious arty farty modern play stuff - it's the way it was!
Taylor picks the essentials from the inquiry and take - I feel - a remarkably non-byost outlook from both sides and, in a way, allows you to make up your own ideas.
Many issuesed raised will continue to be disputed for many years to come.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is made up from some of the many transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence enquiry. The editor has picked out a selection of interviews and testimonies that make up this horrifying but riveting read about the senseless murder of the Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence.
This Colour of Justice chronicles the inept mismanagement of the murder enquiry from the word go by the British Police, the anguish of Stephen's parents, and the uniting of Jews, Asian and Blacks in their bid to get to the truth, this book strives to give an overall view of a case that was to shocked a nation.
Stephen Lawrence died because he was Black. He was murdered in the most cruel and callous way possible by a group of young men who to this day have not been bought to trial.
This book sets out to show the world "the colour of British justice," and how it does not necessarily always apply to ethnic minorities. The book is not a condemnation of all things "White", it shows compassion too in the form of the man who stayed with Stephen and whispered in his ear as he lay dying, "you are loved, remember you are loved" and the rose tree he planted in his garden, nourished by the blood he washed off his hands after the incident. "The Colour of Justice" is so very shocking because it is true and it is for this very reason that this book should be in every school library in the country, not to condemn but to teach the next generation that "the colour of justice," should be the colour of equality.
24th July 2002
Two of the suspects involved in the Stephen Lawrence's murder have just been found guilty of a racially motivated attack on a Black off duty Metropolitan Police Officer. A leopard so it seems never changes its spots.
This Colour of Justice chronicles the inept mismanagement of the murder enquiry from the word go by the British Police, the anguish of Stephen's parents, and the uniting of Jews, Asian and Blacks in their bid to get to the truth, this book strives to give an overall view of a case that was to shocked a nation.
Stephen Lawrence died because he was Black. He was murdered in the most cruel and callous way possible by a group of young men who to this day have not been bought to trial.
This book sets out to show the world "the colour of British justice," and how it does not necessarily always apply to ethnic minorities. The book is not a condemnation of all things "White", it shows compassion too in the form of the man who stayed with Stephen and whispered in his ear as he lay dying, "you are loved, remember you are loved" and the rose tree he planted in his garden, nourished by the blood he washed off his hands after the incident. "The Colour of Justice" is so very shocking because it is true and it is for this very reason that this book should be in every school library in the country, not to condemn but to teach the next generation that "the colour of justice," should be the colour of equality.
24th July 2002
Two of the suspects involved in the Stephen Lawrence's murder have just been found guilty of a racially motivated attack on a Black off duty Metropolitan Police Officer. A leopard so it seems never changes its spots.
Format:Paperback
Being verbatim nothing is missed, you can very clearly enter into the space through this adaptation of the inquiry notes, to the Stephen Lawrence Murder inquiry!
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