Kelso Cochrane

“Tributa ad Notting Hill genus odio hostia”

posted by Tippa Naphtali
9th April 2006
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Stanley Cochrane est 75 annorum. Primum Britanniam venit anno, non ut a Visitor urbis, sed invenire qui homicidii frater fere 50 annos. In 17th May 1959, Kelso Cochrane, a XXXII annorum faber a Antigua, occiderunt coetus album iuvenes in Notting Hill portam. Non unquam convictus.

“In March 2003 Evigilans a perturbatio somnium de frater,” dicit Stanley. “Tum nec mens ora quatit. “Saepius redit in somnis. Iudicavi me aliquid.”

Stanley wrote to the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens, asking for his brother’s murder to be re-investigated. They replied there was no new forensic evidence to re-open the case.

Three years on, and not satisfied with the police response, he decided to see what he could find out for himself.

Above all, he wanted to know why his brother Kelso was killed. Was it robbery or racially motivated? Was it both?

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Remembering Kelso Cochrane
(IRR News – 7May th 2009)
Kelso Cochrane, an immigrant from Antigua, was murdered in Notting Hill by a gang of White men as he walked home from a local hospital after receiving treatment for an injury he had sustained in his work as a carpenter. Kelso was stabbed and later died in hospital.

Who killed my brother?
(Searchlight – May 2006)
The murder of Kelso Cochrane on Saturday 17 May 1959 became one of the most significant moments in the history of racism in Britain. Stabbed to death by a gang of racist white youths, Cochrane was killed in a strikingly similar way to Stephen Lawrence in 1993.

Kelso Cochrane Honoured With A Blue Plaque
(ItzCaribbean.com – date unknown)
50 years to the day, after the violent murder of North Kensington resident Kelso Cochrane, the Nubian Jak Community Trust is to install a Blue Plaque at the Grove Inn Restaurant & Bar, on the corner of Golborne Road and Southam Street, W10.

Kelso Cochrane murder: 50th anniversary
(Golborne Life – date unknown)
The fiftieth anniversary of the tragic murder of Kelso Cochrane on Southam Street, just off Golborne Road, is to be marked by the unveiling of a commemorative Blue Plaque on Sunday May 17th.