THE racist men guilty of murdering Stephen Lawrence have been jailed for a total of 29 years.

Yesterday Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, aged 35, were found guilty of killing the teenager on Well Hall Road, Eltham in 1993.

The 18-year-old student died after he was attacked by a gang of youths and stabbed at a bus stop.

Dobson who is currently serving a five year jail sentence for drug dealing was jailed for a minimum of 15 years and two months.

Norris, who has previously been convicted of a race hate attack in which a car was driven at a black police officer, was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years and three months in prison.

Both were sentenced as juveniles because of their ages at the time of the murder.

During the seven-week trial jurors were shown covert footage filmed by the police of both murderers using racist language, referring to black people as 'n*****s'.

The surveillance also showed Norris talking about torturing and killing black people. As part of a cold-case review new forensic evidence was discovered by scientists 15 years after Mr Lawrence's death.

New scientific techniques revealed a tiny bloodstain on Dobson's jacket that could only have been from the victim, while a single hair belonging to the teenager was also found on Norris' jeans.

The undercover footage of Gary Dobson and David Norris expressing racist opinions, filmed by police and used in evidence against the pair during the murder trial