Racial tension in Notting Hill, West London
May 18, 1959 - Jamaican murdered in race riot area of London.: A 32-year old West Indian, Kelso Benjamin Cochrane, was walking home to Bevington Road, North Kensington, after attending hospital with a broken thumb early yesterday, when a group of youths challenged him on a street corner; Where are you going Jim Crow, A fight developed and Cochrane was stabbed. Two black men took him to hospital but he died a few minutes after admission. The murder occurred in the Notting Hill area scene of last year's racial disturbances. Photo shows Mrs. Joy Okine, wife of a black man, who saw the fight whilst seated at the open window of her home in Southam Street, North Kensington
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