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A national day of commemoration for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence will take place on 22 April every year, the prime minister has said. | |
It comes as the family of the black teenager attends the 25th anniversary memorial of his death in London. | |
The 18-year-old was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack in Eltham, south London, in 1993. | |
Royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are attending the service at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square. | |
Prime Minister Theresa May made the announcement when speaking at the memorial service. | |
Mr Lawrence was set upon by a gang, stabbed and left to die in Eltham on the evening of 22 April 1993. | |
Two of the group of up to six men who attacked the teenager and friend Duwayne Brooks have been convicted of murder, but the rest have evaded justice. | |
David Norris and Gary Dobson are both serving life sentences. | |
The Macpherson Report into the investigation into Stephen Lawrence's death found that there had been "institutional racism" in the police. |