Stephen Lawrence trial: Forensic worker tells of mis-labelling blunder

A police lab worker wrote the wrong case number on a form relating to one of the men accused of murdering Stephen Lawrence, a court heard today.

Forensic assistant Yvonne Turner admitted she "wasn't concentrating" when she started examining a jacket belonging to suspect Gary Dobson.

On October 28, 1993 she had been asked to look at a woolly hat and a baseball cap linked to a separate robbery case, as well as Dobson's jacket.

The Old Bailey heard today that she wrote the case number linked to the robbery at the top of the form for the jacket.      More Read