It was a little after midnight on September 17th 1959 when Kelso Cochrane was attacked and murdered on his way home to his home in North Kensington, Notting Hill in West London. The 32 year old Antiguan carpenter was set upon by a group of white youths just a short distance from the bedsit that he shared with his fiancé Olivia. Despite evidence to suggest the attack had been racially motivated, within 24 hours of the murder the police insisted that this was not the case. Arrests were made but no charges were ever brought. The aftermath witnessed campaigners from the black community across the UK demand change whilst fascist groups attempted to ignite a race war. Over 60 years later the quest for justice for Kelso Cochrane is ongoing.

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British Newspaper Archive
Belfast Telegraph 
18/05/59
Birmingham Daily Post
18/05/59, 19/05/59, 22/05/59
Daily Mirror 
18/05/59, 19/05/59, 20/05/59,, 21/05/59
22/05/59
Western Mail
18/05/59, 23/05/59
Shields Daily News
18/05/59
Aberdeen Evening Express 
18/05/59
Daily Herald 
18/05/59, 19/05/59, 22/05/59, 23/05/59, 06/08/59
Halifax Evening Courier
18/05/59
19/05/59
Daily News
19/05/59, 20/05/59, 21/05/59, 23/05/59, 05/08/59
Kensington Post
22/05/59, 07/08/59
The People
24/05/59
Sunday Mirror 
24/05/59

Websites
https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/murder-in-notting-hill

http://www.wakingthedead.org/kelso-cochrane.html

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/horrific-murder-kelso-cochrane-notting-18257872.amp

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/14/turbulent-times-kelso-cochrane-police-search

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-probe-first-racist-murder-24216906.amp

https://the-upsetter.com/black-death/crime/

https://www.urbankapital.com › postSixty-one years since Notting Hill murder of Kelso Cochrane

https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/who-killed-kelso-cochrane/

https://thelondonpress.uk/2021/05/21/were-still-broken-family-of-black-man-killed-in-unsolved-racist-murder-appeal-for-met-apology/

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