Some Life Sentence! ; After Just 9 Years the Savage Murderer of Philip Lawrence Is in a Cushy Open Prison Preparing for Release. And the Home Office Didn't Even Have the Courtesy to Tell His Victim's Widow Where He Was

Daily Mail › July 30, 2005

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NEARLY a decade has passed since Philip Lawrence was murdered outside the gates of the school where he was headmaster. But for his widow, Frances, the passage of time has done little to abate her grief.

'Each day is still a hurdle,' she says. 'It's been a never- ending battle.

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Some Life Sentence! ; After Just 9 Years the Savage Murderer of Philip Lawrence Is in a Cushy Open Prison Preparing for Release. And the Home Office Didn't Even Have the Courtesy to Tell His Victim's Widow Where He Was

There is a sense in which, when the man who killed him went to prison, we all went to prison.' Philip was stabbed in the chest on December 8, 1995, as he tried to protect a pupil from being beaten up by a gang of youths. He died later in hospital, leaving behind Frances and their four children.

His killer was Learco Chindamo, a boy of just 15, who afterwards b...

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