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GMP insiders believe intelligence WAS gathered and that it was highly likely that Special Branch officers sent undercover officers to the inquiry.
The then chief constable of GMP, Sir David Wilmot, publicly admitted his force was ‘institutionally racist’ a few days after the memo was sent out.
It emerged last year that a shadowy Metropolitan Police unit, the Special Demonstration Squad, had spied on the Lawrence family.
One source told the M.E.N.: “This memo is incontrovertible proof that the police ordered intelligence to be gathered on supporters of the Lawrence family because they were considered a threat to the state.
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