LONDON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Jurors in the trial of two men charged with killing a black student in London watched a video Tuesday of the defendants and their friends in racist talk.
The video came from a camera with a fisheye lens secretly placed by police a year after Stephen Lawrence's killing in 1993, in an apartment rented by one of the defendants, Gary Dobson, The Guardian reported. David Norris, Dobson's co-defendant, was one of the visitors to the flat in 1994.
"If I was going to kill myself do you know what I would do? I would go and kill every black c--t, every Paki, every copper, every mug that I know, I'm telling you," Norris was recorded saying in one conversation. "I am not talking about people I love and care for, I am talking about people I don't like. I'm telling you then I'd go home and go boom straight in my head, that's if I was going to do it but that is madness."
Lawrence, who had planned to be an architect, was with a friend when he was fatally stabbed in South London. The friend was one of the first witnesses in the trial, describing how he and Lawrence were approached by young men yelling racial slurs, and how Lawrence collapsed and bled to death.
Dobson, 36, who testified after the video was played, said he was "disgusted and embarrassed" by the words on the tape. He denied participating in Lawrence's killing.
The judge, Colman Treacy, warned jurors they must not use the video as proof that Dobson and Norris committed the crime.
