Black In Britain. Newswatch 27 July. All of today's Black British news

We scan national newspapers for stories that feature Black people and where possible give you the opportunity to read them. For obvious reasons we cannot reproduce these stories, but will show you where to find them giving you the chance to view how the different publications deal with Black subjects and portray Black people. REMEMBER these are not our words, but where the subject/person is listed in on our site you will also be able to view things from what we believe to be a wholly Black perspective

HOME OFFICE ASYLUM SCANDAL
A corrupt immigration officer boasted to The Sun that he has helped 200 bogus asylum seekers enter Britain for cash. Senior Home Office worker Joseph Dzumbira, 35, bragged to undercover reporter, Anthony France, that he could get anyone refugee status for up to £2,000.

COP SET TO RE-OPEN CASE
Police were last night ready to re-open the case of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. The move came after a BBC documentary claimed a cop was paid to scupper the original probe. Ex-detective Neil Putnam alleged Det Sgt John Davidson took bungs from Clifford Norris, father of a prime suspect David Norris.

STEPHEN LAWRENCE INQUIRY WON'T BE RE-OPENED
Last night, senior Scotland Yard sources rubbished the key finding of ta shocking BBC documentary which claimed a 'bent copper' was paid to stall the investigation by the gangster father of one of the prime suspects

BBC DEFENDS SPENDING £1m TO FIND OUT WHAT VIEWERS WANT
The BBC spent £1.1m on a consultation exercise that resulted in its television division being renamed BBC Vision and its radio department being re-branded as Audio and Music. The huge cost of the restructuring included £76,000 spent on consultants, £17,000 on stationery and £140,000 on hotels, hospitality and travel

LAWRENCE'S FATHER CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO 'CORRUPT' POLICE
Stephen Lawrence's father has demanded that the investigation of an allegedly corrupt detective involved in the hunt for his son's killers should include other officers. John Davidson, a former detective sergeant accused of taking money to "look after" one of the five chief suspects in the racist stabbing 13 years ago, is already expected to be the subject of a full inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

SENIOR OFFICER FEARS CORRUPTION MAY HAVE SHIELDED KILLERS
The man who led the reinvestigation of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence has said he feared that corrupt officers may have helped shield the killers. Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Grieve led the third squad which tried to find enough evidence to gain murder convictions for the 1993 stabbing of the gifted student at a south-east London bus stop.

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