Lambeth mayor Marcia Cameron yesterday (17 April) joined members of the anti-hate charity 17-24-30 and local people to mark the 19th anniversary of the 1999 bomb in Brixton Market.
The charity’s name records the dates on which neo-nazi activist David Copeland targeted ethnic minority and gay and lesbian people with three bombs in London that killed three people and injured more than 100.
Amarjit Chanion, who was in the Dogstar when he heard the bomb explode, recalled the work of the late Phil Cremin, a civil rights activist and Brixton solicitor for more than 25 years, who was at the centre of a campaign that raised many thousands to support victims of the bomb and for the plaque on the wall of Iceland where it exploded.
How time passes by quickly, yet it is important not to forget these atrocities and those who were killed and injured. It is right and proper that the Mayor attended this remembrance service. These events do fade from memory and we all need a reminder from time to time. Copeland injured 162 people during his 3 week reign of terror. He killed three people, as stated above but also an unborn baby.
How time passes by quickly, yet it is important not to forget these atrocities and those who were killed and injured. It is right and proper that the Mayor attended this remembrance service. These events do fade from memory and we all need a reminder from time to time. Copeland injured 162 people during his 3 week reign of terror. He killed three people plus an unborn baby.