Pay-back time for Lawrence suspect

A former suspect in the murder of Stephen Lawrence is facing a confiscation hearing today after he was jailed for his part in a £4m cannabis dealing plot. Neil Acourt was arrested after the 18-year-old was stabbed to death by a gang of white men at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London, in 1993. But he was acquitted of the murder of the black teenager when a private prosecution brought by the family collapsed at the Old Bailey three…

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