Trial over the killing of the black teenager has driven the British Prime Minister David Cameron to acknowledge that the country still has a problem with racial prejudice. Interviewing with Sky News's Boulton & Co, Cameron admitted that people from minority ethnic backgrounds still face disadvantage.
Following the conviction of two men for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, who was attacked by a racist gang in south east London in 1993, Cameron said Britain is a "less racist country" than at the time of 18-year-old Stephen's killing, but it still suffers problems with racism.
British politicians are being severely criticized for the widespread racism problem in the UK, following the publication of a report by Britain's Home Office, which shows 51,187 racist cases were reported to the police in England and Wales in 2010-11. Furthermore, the Institute for Race Relations (IRR), which is a British anti-racism charity, has revealed that since the racial murder of Stephen Lawrence 19 years ago, at least 96 people have been killed due to racial violence.
Meanwhile, a new Mirror investigation has found that complaints of racism against the police forces in England and Wales have increased by nearly a third (32%) in recent four years, from 687 in 2007 to 904 in 2010.
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