Letter: Justice for Peach

THE cold-case investigation team and forensic scientists who have belatedly allowed the Metropolitan Police to bring to justice two of the men involved in the 1993 racist murder of Stephen Lawrence are to be congratulated for the thoroughness with which they have conducted this high-profile and no-expense-spared investigation.

Perhaps it is now time for them to move on and investigate with similar enthusiasm the death of Blair Peach, the New Zealand-born anti-racism campaigner who was knocked unconscious during a demonstration against the National Front in Southall on 23 April, 1979 and died the next day.

The conviction of the member of the former Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group responsible for striking Mr Peach would do much to show that the Met has indeed changed over the years.

As would a successful prosecution of his silent and blind-eye-turning colleagues for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

John Hein

Montgomery Street

Edinburgh