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 Miss Oliva Ellington, 21-year old fiancee of the dead man, who said they had planned to marry next month. Kelso was not a fighting man, she said. He would normally go out of his way to avoid trouble

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