LONDON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A British jury Tuesday convicted two men on forensic evidence in the 18-year-old murder of Stephen Lawrence at a London-area bus stop.
Gary Dobson and David Norris were convicted as the result of a tiny bloodstain on Dobson's jacket that was found to have come from Lawrence.
Lawrence, 18, was stabbed at a bus stop in Eltham, south London in April 1993. In an investigation fraught with errors and failed prosecutions, no one initially was brought to trial for the murder due to lack of evidence, despite the naming of five "prime suspects."
In a cold case review that lasted four years, a new team of forensic scientists found microscopic evidence linking two of the five men to the murder.
Dobson, 36, was convicted of drug trafficking in 2010 and sentenced to five years in prison. Norris, 35, was convicted in 2002 of an allegation of racially threatening behavior, the BBC reported.
Both men denied the crime, saying that evidence had been contaminated in the 18 years since the case was opened. The jury was told contamination was unlikely.
