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A memorial in honour of Brixtonian Cherry Groce Lee Lawrence (pictured) unveils a memorial for his mother, Cherry Groce in Windrush Square, Brixton on Sunday 25th April. Tragically shot in front of her children by the Metropolitan Police in 1985, Cherry Groce sustained injuries that left her paralysed and in pain until the day she passed away. A memorial, designed by world-renowned architect Sir David Adjaye OBE will be unveiled in Windrush Square, Brixton in honour of Cherry Groce on Sunday 25th April. Speaking to The Voice, Chair of the Cherry Groce Foundation and son of Ms. Groce, Mr. ...

Apr 22, 2021 PARIS (AP) — The guilty verdict in the trial over George Floyd’s death was not just celebrated in America. It signaled hope for those seeking racial justice and fighting police brutality on the other side of the Atlantic and beyond, where Black Lives Matter has also become a rallying cry. But the fight is far from over, activists, victims’ families and others in Europe, South Africa and elsewhere said Wednesday. A Minneapolis jury found ex-police officer Derek Chauvin guilty Tuesday on all counts of murder and manslaughter in the May death of Floyd, whose final words, “I ...

Dorothy ‘Cherry’ Groce was shot by police when they raided her house looking for her son. Four of her children were at home at the time, while her son was never charged.  Cherry was left paralysed from the waist down.  Two days of riots ensued as the community protested institutional racism and systemic injustice faced by Black people.   In 2011, Mrs Groce contracted an infection which led to kidney failure, and she passed away on Easter Sunday.   It was only in March 2014 that the Met Police apologised for the wrongful shooting – in July of that year an inquest ...

Thriller: Trust by Chris Hammer Wildfire, 480 pages, hardcover €21; e-book £8.99 Life couldn’t be better for journalist and author Martin Scarsden. Semi-retired, he has been living with his partner Mandy and her two-year-old son Liam for the last 16 months in the big house above Port Silver that she inherited and they are now both renovating. He is playing with Liam on the beach below the house when he gets two calls. The first is from his former Sydney newspaper editor and mentor Max Fuller, who tells him he is on to a hot news story and wants his help. The second is a voicemail from Ma...