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A senior police officer has raised concerns that a narrative was built up suggesting the death of a black boy allegedly pushed into a Welsh river by a schoolmate was a racist killing.Det Ch Insp Matt Powell, who led the police investigation into 13-year-old Christopher Kapessas death, said comparisons to Stephen Lawrences murd
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